κίρκος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Of unknown origin. Compare κρέξ (kréx, “crane, crex”) and κρίκος (kríkos, “ring”) (the different senses may well be of different origin).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

κίρκος • (kírkos) m (genitive κίρκου); second declension

  1. type of hawk or falcon
  2. type of wolf
  3. circle, ring
  4. racecourse, circus
  5. type of stone
  6. (Hesychius) κωπηλάτης (kōpēlátēs, “rower”)
  7. (Hesychius) ἡ τοῦ αἰγείρου βλάστησις (hē toû aigeírou blástēsis, “sprouting of the black poplar”)

Inflection

Descendants

Further reading

  • κίρκος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • κίρκος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • κίρκος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • κίρκος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • κίρκος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • 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
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