σίκυος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σῐκῠός (sĭkŭós), σῐ́κῠς (sĭ́kŭs)

Etymology

From the same substrate/Pre-Greek root of σῐκῠ́α (sĭkŭ́a, “bottle-gourd”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sí.ky.os/ → /ˈsi.cy.os/ → /ˈsi.ci.os/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sí.ky.os/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ky.os/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.cy.os/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.cy.os/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ci.os/

Noun

σῐ́κῠος • (sĭ́kŭos) m (genitive σῐκῠ́ου); second declension

1. cucumber (Cucumis sativus)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ σῐ́κῠος; τοῦ σῐκῠ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σῐ́κῠος ho sĭ́kŭos	τὼ σῐκῠ́ω tṑ sĭkŭ́ō	οἱ σῐ́κῠοι hoi sĭ́kŭoi
Genitive	τοῦ σῐκῠ́ου toû sĭkŭ́ou	τοῖν σῐκῠ́οιν toîn sĭkŭ́oin	τῶν σῐκῠ́ων tôn sĭkŭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ σῐκῠ́ῳ tōî sĭkŭ́ōi	τοῖν σῐκῠ́οιν toîn sĭkŭ́oin	τοῖς σῐκῠ́οις toîs sĭkŭ́ois
Accusative	τὸν σῐ́κῠον tòn sĭ́kŭon	τὼ σῐκῠ́ω tṑ sĭkŭ́ō	τοὺς σῐκῠ́ους toùs sĭkŭ́ous
Vocative	σῐ́κῠε sĭ́kŭe	σῐκῠ́ω sĭkŭ́ō	σῐ́κῠοι sĭ́kŭoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σῐκῠ́δῐον (sĭkŭ́dĭon)
• σῐκῠηδόν (sĭkŭēdón)
• σῐκῠήλᾰτον (sĭkŭḗlăton)
• σῐκῠοπέπων (sĭkŭopépōn)
• σῐκῠώδης (sĭkŭṓdēs)
• σῐκῠών (sĭkŭṓn)
• σῐκῠώνη (sĭkŭṓnē)
• σῐκῠωνῐ́ᾱ (sĭkŭōnĭ́ā)

Descendants

• → Translingual: Sicyos

Further reading

• “σίκυος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “σίκυος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• σίκυος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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