κάνδυς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Old Persian *kandu­- (literally “cloak”) or kantu- (literally “covering”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kán.dys/ → /ˈkan.dys/ → /ˈkan.dis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kán.dys/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.dys/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.dys/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.dys/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.dis/

Noun

κάνδῠς • (kándus) m (genitive κάνδῠος); third declension

1. mantle with sleeves worn by Persians

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ κᾰ́νδῠς; τοῦ κᾰ́νδῠος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κᾰ́νδῠς ho kándus	τὼ κᾰ́νδῠε tṑ kándue	οἱ κᾰ́νδῠες hoi kándues
Genitive	τοῦ κᾰ́νδῠος toû kánduos	τοῖν κᾰνδῠ́οιν toîn kandúoin	τῶν κᾰνδῠ́ων tôn kandúōn
Dative	τῷ κᾰ́νδῠῐ̈ / κᾰ́νδυι tôi kánduï / kándui	τοῖν κᾰνδῠ́οιν toîn kandúoin	τοῖς κᾰ́νδῠσῐ / κᾰ́νδῠσῐν toîs kándusi(n)
Accusative	τὸν κᾰ́νδῠν tòn kándun	τὼ κᾰ́νδῠε tṑ kándue	τοὺς κᾰ́νδῡς / κᾰ́νδῠᾰς toùs kándūs / kánduas
Vocative	κᾰ́νδῠ kándu	κᾰ́νδῠε kándue	κᾰ́νδῠες kándues
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: kandys

Further reading

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