Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /kírkos/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /církos/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /cíɾkos/

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 defines it as κωπηλάτης ‎(kōpēlátēs, “rower”)
7. Hesychius defines it as ἡ ‎(hē) τοῦ ‎(toû) αἰγείρου ‎(aigeírou) βλάστησις ‎(blástēsis, “that of the poplar sprout”)

Inflection

Descendants

• Latin: circus
• Translingual: Circaetus

References

• 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.
  • falcon idem, page 303.
  • hawk idem, page 389.
  • vulture idem, page 958.
• 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