κόνις

From Proto-Indo-European *ken- (“dust, ashes”). Cognate with Latin cinis and Sanskrit कण (káṇa).

κόνῐς • (kónis) f (genitive κόνεως or κόνῐος or κόνεος); third declension

1. dust
2. (figuratively) the multitude
3. ashes
4. the powder sprinkled upon wrestlers

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• κονιορτός (koniortós)
• κονῑ́ω (konī́ō)

• κονῐ́ᾱ (koníā)

• Greek: σκόνη (skóni, “powder, dust”)

• “κόνις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κόνις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κόνις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κόνις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κόνις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “κόνις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • dust idem, page 256.
  • grit idem, page 374.
  • powder idem, page 630.
  • sand idem, page 733.
• 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