κῦδος

See also: κύδος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Assumed to be from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁- (“to perceive, pay attention”) and therefore related to κοέω (koéō), Latin caveō, Sanskrit कवि (kaví, “wise, poet, seer, sage”), Persian کی (kay, “poet-king”), Lithuanian kavoti (“safeguard, tend”), Old Armenian ցուցանեմ (cʻucʻanem, “I show”), Polish cześć (“glory”) and cud (“miracle”), Old East Slavic кудесникъ (kudesnikŭ, “wizard, mage”). However, Beekes rejects this and leads Proto-Slavic *čudo (“miracle”) and κῦδος back to a Proto-Indo-European root *kewd-s- (“miraculous power”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kŷː.dos/ → /ˈcy.ðos/ → /ˈci.ðos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kŷː.dos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈky.dos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.ðos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.ðos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.ðos/

Noun

κῦδος • (kûdos) n (genitive κῡ́δεος); third declension (Epic)

1. renown, glory

Declension

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	κῦδος kûdos
Genitive	κῡ́δεος / κῡ́δευς kū́deos / kū́deus
Dative	κῡ́δει / κῡ́δεῐ̈ kū́dei / kū́deĭ̈
Accusative	κῦδος kûdos
Vocative	κῦδος kûdos
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

Third declension of κῦδος; κῡ́δεος (Epic)

Derived terms

• Ἀνδροκῡ́δης (Androkū́dēs)
• Θουκῡδίδης (Thoukūdídēs)
• κῡδιάνειρα (kūdiáneira)
• κῡ́διστος (kū́distos)
• Φερεκῡ́δης (Pherekū́dēs)

Descendants

• → English: kudos

References

• “κῦδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κῦδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κῦδος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κῦδος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κῦδος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “κῦδος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “kῦδος, -εος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 796
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • celebrity idem, page 120.
  • fame idem, page 304.
  • glory idem, page 363.
  • honour idem, page 404.
  • illustriousness idem, page 416.
  • lustre idem, page 505.
  • name idem, page 550.
  • prestige idem, page 638.
  • renown idem, page 695.
  • reputation idem, page 699.