γίγαρτον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Reduplicated formation. It is often connected with grānum (“seed, kernel”) and Old High German kerno (“pit, stone”), which is formally improbable. According to Beekes, the word is rather a Pre-Greek loan.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɡí.ɡar.ton/ → /ˈʝi.ɣar.ton/ → /ˈʝi.ɣar.ton/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɡí.ɡar.ton/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡi.ɡar.ton/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈʝi.ɣar.ton/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈʝi.ɣar.ton/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈʝi.ɣar.ton/

Noun

γῐ́γᾰρτον • (gígarton) n (genitive γῐγᾰ́ρτου); second declension

1. grapestone, seed of the grape
2. pit of the olive

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ γῐ́γᾰρτον; τοῦ γῐγᾰ́ρτου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ γῐ́γᾰρτον tò gígarton	τὼ γῐγᾰ́ρτω tṑ gigártō	τᾰ̀ γῐ́γᾰρτᾰ tà gígarta
Genitive	τοῦ γῐγᾰ́ρτου toû gigártou	τοῖν γῐγᾰ́ρτοιν toîn gigártoin	τῶν γῐγᾰ́ρτων tôn gigártōn
Dative	τῷ γῐγᾰ́ρτῳ tôi gigártōi	τοῖν γῐγᾰ́ρτοιν toîn gigártoin	τοῖς γῐγᾰ́ρτοις toîs gigártois
Accusative	τὸ γῐ́γᾰρτον tò gígarton	τὼ γῐγᾰ́ρτω tṑ gigártō	τᾰ̀ γῐ́γᾰρτᾰ tà gígarta
Vocative	γῐ́γᾰρτον gígarton	γῐγᾰ́ρτω gigártō	γῐ́γᾰρτᾰ gígarta
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• γιγαρτικός (gigartikós)
• γιγαρτίς (gigartís)
• γιγαρτώδης (gigartṓdēs)
• γιγαρτώνιον (gigartṓnion)

 

Further reading

• “γίγαρτον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• γίγαρτον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• γίγαρτον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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