Νάρκισσος

See also: νάρκισσος

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Νάρκισσος • (Nárkissos) m (genitive Ναρκίσσου); second declension

  1. (Greek mythology) Narcissus

Declension
Second declension of ὁ Νᾰ́ρκῐσσος; τοῦ Νᾰρκῐ́σσου (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Νᾰ́ρκῐσσος
ho Nárkissos
Genitive τοῦ Νᾰρκῐ́σσου
toû Narkíssou
Dative τῷ Νᾰρκῐ́σσῳ
tôi Narkíssōi
Accusative τὸν Νᾰ́ρκῐσσον
tòn Nárkisson
Vocative Νᾰ́ρκῐσσε
Nárkisse
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Further reading

Greek

Etymology

Ancient Greek Νάρκισσος (Nárkissos), which is often connected to νάρκισσος (nárkissos, “daffodil”) due to Narcissus being turned into a flower, but which term was borrowed first or whether there is a connection at all is unclear. Or, possibly a borrowing from Aegean/Tyrsenian.[1]

Proper noun

Νάρκισσος • (Nárkissos) m

  1. (Greek mythology) Narcissus
  2. a male given name

Declension
  Νάρκισσος
case     \     number singular
nominative Νάρκισσος •
genitive Νάρκισσου •
accusative Νάρκισσο •
vocative Νάρκισσε •

References
  1. Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

Further reading
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