κηλίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The formation is like κνημίς (knēmís, “greave”). A comparable meaning can be found in Latin calidus (“with a bless on the head”). To the same semantic sphere also belongs Lithuanian kalýbas (“white-necked”) and Old Irish caile (“stain”). Beekes proposes a common derivation from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂l- (“white spot”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɛː.lǐːs/ → /ciˈlis/ → /ciˈlis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɛː.lǐːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ke̝ˈlis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ciˈlis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ciˈlis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈlis/

Noun

κηλῑ́ς • (kēlī́s) f (genitive κηλῖδος); third declension

1. stain, spot, defilement

   Synonym: σπίλος (spílos)

2. stain, blemish
3. (medicine) naevus

Declension

Third declension of ἡ κηλῑ́ς; τῆς κηλῖδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κηλῑ́ς hē kēlī́s	τὼ κηλῖδε tṑ kēlîde	αἱ κηλῖδες hai kēlîdes
Genitive	τῆς κηλῖδος tês kēlîdos	τοῖν κηλῑ́δοιν toîn kēlī́doin	τῶν κηλῑ́δων tôn kēlī́dōn
Dative	τῇ κηλῖδῐ têi kēlîdi	τοῖν κηλῑ́δοιν toîn kēlī́doin	ταῖς κηλῖσῐ / κηλῖσῐν taîs kēlîsi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κηλῖδᾰ tḕn kēlîda	τὼ κηλῖδε tṑ kēlîde	τᾱ̀ς κηλῖδᾰς tā̀s kēlîdas
Vocative	κηλῑ́ς kēlī́s	κηλῖδε kēlîde	κηλῖδες kēlîdes
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

• κηλῑδόω (kēlīdóō)
• κηλῑδωτός (kēlīdōtós)

 

Descendants

• Greek: κηλίδα (kilída)

Further reading

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