ἴτον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ϝίτον (wíton), οἰτόν (oitón), οὐιτόν (ouitón)

Etymology

Furnée connects the word with ὕδνον (húdnon, “truffle”), which has variants too. Furnée is mistaken to assume a prothetic "ὀ-", since "ὀ-" and "οὐ-" just indicate "ϝ-". So we have *wit- and *wid-n-, with a suffix beginning with "n-" and voicing before the nasal, which is typical of Pre-Greek according to Beekes.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /í.ton/ → /ˈi.ton/ → /ˈi.ton/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /í.ton/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ton/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ton/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ton/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ton/

Noun

ἴτον • (íton) n (genitive ἴτου); second declension

1. Thracian name for a kind of mushroom

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ῐ̓́τον; τοῦ ῐ̓́του (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ῐ̓́τον tò íton	τὼ ῐ̓́τω tṑ ítō	τᾰ̀ ῐ̓́τᾰ tà íta
Genitive	τοῦ ῐ̓́του toû ítou	τοῖν ῐ̓́τοιν toîn ítoin	τῶν ῐ̓́των tôn ítōn
Dative	τῷ ῐ̓́τῳ tôi ítōi	τοῖν ῐ̓́τοιν toîn ítoin	τοῖς ῐ̓́τοις toîs ítois
Accusative	τὸ ῐ̓́τον tò íton	τὼ ῐ̓́τω tṑ ítō	τᾰ̀ ῐ̓́τᾰ tà íta
Vocative	ῐ̓́τον íton	ῐ̓́τω ítō	ῐ̓́τᾰ íta
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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