κτένιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κτείς (kteís, “a comb”) +‎ -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kté.ni.on/ → /ˈkte.ni.on/ → /ˈkte.ni.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kté.ni.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkte.ni.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkte.ni.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkte.ni.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkte.ni.on/

Noun

κτένῐον • (kténion) n (genitive κτενῐ́ου); second declension

1. diminutive of κτείς (kteís)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κτένῐον; τοῦ κτενῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κτένῐον tò kténion	τὼ κτενῐ́ω tṑ kteníō	τᾰ̀ κτένῐᾰ tà kténia
Genitive	τοῦ κτενῐ́ου toû kteníou	τοῖν κτενῐ́οιν toîn kteníoin	τῶν κτενῐ́ων tôn kteníōn
Dative	τῷ κτενῐ́ῳ tôi kteníōi	τοῖν κτενῐ́οιν toîn kteníoin	τοῖς κτενῐ́οις toîs kteníois
Accusative	τὸ κτένῐον tò kténion	τὼ κτενῐ́ω tṑ kteníō	τᾰ̀ κτένῐᾰ tà kténia
Vocative	κτένῐον kténion	κτενῐ́ω kteníō	κτένῐᾰ kténia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Byzantine Greek: κτένιν (kténin), κτένι (kténi), χτένι (khténi)
  • Greek: χτένι (chténi), χτένα (chténa)

Further reading

• “κτένιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κτένιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κτένιον in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften