κῆτος

See also: κύτος and κήτος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɛ̂ː.tos/ → /ˈci.tos/ → /ˈci.tos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɛ̂ː.tos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈke̝.tos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈci.tos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈci.tos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.tos/

Noun

κῆτος • (kêtos) n (genitive κήτους); third declension

1. whale, sea monster
   1. (astronomy) the constellation Cetus
2. abyss

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ κῆτος; τοῦ κήτους (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κῆτος tò kêtos	τὼ κήτει tṑ kḗtei	τᾰ̀ κήτη tằ kḗtē
Genitive	τοῦ κήτους toû kḗtous	τοῖν κητοῖν toîn kētoîn	τῶν κητῶν tôn kētôn
Dative	τῷ κήτει tōî kḗtei	τοῖν κητοῖν toîn kētoîn	τοῖς κήτεσῐ / κήτεσῐν toîs kḗtesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ κῆτος tò kêtos	τὼ κήτει tṑ kḗtei	τᾰ̀ κήτη tằ kḗtē
Vocative	κῆτος kêtos	κήτει kḗtei	κήτη kḗtē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: κήτος (kítos)
• → Classical Syriac: ܩܐܛܐ (qē(ʾ)ṭāʾ)
• → Coptic: ⲕⲏⲧⲟⲥ (kētos)
• → Latin: cētus
  • → Hungarian: cet
  • → Translingual: Cete, Cetacea
• → Old Armenian: կէտ (kēt), կետոս (ketos)
  • Armenian: կետ (ket)
• → Old Church Slavonic: к҄итъ (kʹitŭ) (see there for further descendants)
• →⇒ Old Georgian: ვეშაპკეტი (vešaṗḳeṭi)

Further reading

• “κῆτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κῆτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κῆτος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κῆτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κῆτος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G2785 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 974
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN