κίσσα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κίττα (kítta) — Attic

Etymology

From an onomatopoeic root, similar to Sanskrit कीकि (kīki, “jay”), किकिदीवि (kikidīvi, “blue jay; partridge”) and Old English higora (“magpie”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kís.sa/ → /ˈcis.sa/ → /ˈci.sa/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kís.sa/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkis.sa/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈcis.sa/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈcis.sa/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.sa/

Noun

κίσσᾰ • (kíssa) f (genitive κίσσης); first declension

1. Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius)
2. longing of pregnant women, craving for strange food

Inflection

First declension of ἡ κῐ́σσᾰ; τῆς κῐ́σσης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κῐ́σσᾰ hē kíssa	τὼ κῐ́σσᾱ tṑ kíssā	αἱ κῐ́σσαι hai kíssai
Genitive	τῆς κῐ́σσης tês kíssēs	τοῖν κῐ́σσαιν toîn kíssain	τῶν κῐσσῶν tôn kissôn
Dative	τῇ κῐ́σσῃ têi kíssēi	τοῖν κῐ́σσαιν toîn kíssain	ταῖς κῐ́σσαις taîs kíssais
Accusative	τὴν κῐ́σσᾰν tḕn kíssan	τὼ κῐ́σσᾱ tṑ kíssā	τᾱ̀ς κῐ́σσᾱς tā̀s kíssās
Vocative	κῐ́σσᾰ kíssa	κῐ́σσᾱ kíssā	κῐ́σσαι kíssai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κισσαβίζω (kissabízō)
• κισσάω (kissáō)

 

Descendants

• Greek: κίσσα (kíssa)
• → Translingual: Cissa

Further reading

• “κίσσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κίσσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κίσσα 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

Greek

Noun

κίσσα • (kíssa) f (plural κίσσες)

1. jay, Eurasian jay

Declension

Declension of κίσσα

	singular	plural
nominative	κίσσα (kíssa)	κίσσες (kísses)
genitive	κίσσας (kíssas)	κισσών (kissón)
accusative	κίσσα (kíssa)	κίσσες (kísses)
vocative	κίσσα (kíssa)	κίσσες (kísses)

Further reading

• κίσσα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el