ἴκτις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἰκτίς (iktís)

Etymology

Compare Old Armenian աքիս (akʻis). Beekes gives no etymology.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ík.tis/ → /ˈik.tis/ → /ˈik.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ík.tis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈik.tis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈik.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈik.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈik.tis/

Noun

ἴκτῐς • (íktis) f (genitive ἴκτῐδος); third declension

1. beech marten (Martes foina)

   Synonym: ἶδυξ (îdux)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ῐ̓́κτῐς; τῆς ῐ̓́κτῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῐ̓́κτῐς hē íktis	τὼ ῐ̓́κτῐδε tṑ íktide	αἱ ῐ̓́κτῐδες hai íktides
Genitive	τῆς ῐ̓́κτῐδος tês íktidos	τοῖν ῐ̓κτῐ́δοιν toîn iktídoin	τῶν ῐ̓κτῐ́δων tôn iktídōn
Dative	τῇ ῐ̓́κτῐδῐ têi íktidi	τοῖν ῐ̓κτῐ́δοιν toîn iktídoin	ταῖς ῐ̓́κτῐσῐ / ῐ̓́κτῐσῐν taîs íktisi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ῐ̓́κτῐδᾰ tḕn íktida	τὼ ῐ̓́κτῐδε tṑ íktide	τᾱ̀ς ῐ̓́κτῐδᾰς tā̀s íktidas
Vocative	ῐ̓́κτῐς íktis	ῐ̓́κτῐδε íktide	ῐ̓́κτῐδες íktides
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Derived terms

• κτίδεος (ktídeos)

Further reading

• “ἴκτις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἴκτις 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