Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κόττυφος ‎(kóttuphos) (Attic)
• κόσσυκος ‎(kóssukos)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /kós̚syɸos/

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

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

Noun

κόσσυφος • ‎(kóssuphos) m ‎(genitive κοσσύφου); second declension

1. blackbird
2. a type of fish
3. a type of poultry at Tanagra

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: κοτσύφι n ‎(kotsýfi, “blackbird”)

• Κοσσυφοπέδιο n ‎(Kossyfopédio, “Kosovo”)

References

• κόσσυφος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «κόσσυφος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette