Κέως

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Solmsen suggests derivation from unattested *κῆϝος (*kêwos, “fire”), from the same root of καίω (kaíō, “to burn”), which must be wrong as it is a Pre-Greek name. Fick compares this word with other placenames like Τέως (Téōs) and Κόως (Kóōs).

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Κέως • (Kéōs) f (genitive Κέω); Attic declension

  1. Ceos; Kea, Cyclades, Greece

Inflection
Attic second declension of ἡ Κέως; τῆς Κέω (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Κέως
hē Kéōs
Genitive τῆς Κέω
tês Kéō
Dative τῇ Κέῳ
têi Kéōi
Accusative τὴν Κέω / Κέων
tḕn Kéō(n)
Vocative Κέως
Kéōs
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • Κεῖος (Keîos)

Descendants
  • Greek: Κέα (Kéa); Τζία (Tzía)
  • → Latin: Ceōs, Cēa

Further reading
  • “Κέως”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Κέως”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “Κέως”, 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, page 1,005
  • 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
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