κνώψ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Clearly related to κινώπετον (kinṓpeton, “venomous beast”) and thus from Pre-Greek. Not a cross of κνώδαλον (knṓdalon, “wild animal”) and another word.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /knɔ̌ːps/ → /knops/ → /knops/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /knɔ̌ːps/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /knops/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /knops/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /knops/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /knops/

Noun

κνώψ • (knṓps) m (genitive κνωπός); third declension

1. venomous beast, especially a serpent

Declension

Third declension of ὁ κνώψ; τοῦ κνωπός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κνώψ ho knṓps	τὼ κνῶπε tṑ knôpe	οἱ κνῶπες hoi knôpes
Genitive	τοῦ κνωπός toû knōpós	τοῖν κνωποῖν toîn knōpoîn	τῶν κνωπῶν tôn knōpôn
Dative	τῷ κνωπῐ́ tôi knōpí	τοῖν κνωποῖν toîn knōpoîn	τοῖς κνωψῐ́ / κνωψῐ́ν toîs knōpsí(n)
Accusative	τὸν κνῶπᾰ tòn knôpa	τὼ κνῶπε tṑ knôpe	τοὺς κνῶπᾰς toùs knôpas
Vocative	κνώψ knṓps	κνῶπε knôpe	κνῶπες knôpes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κνωπόμορφος (knōpómorphos)

Further reading

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