αἶνος

See also: αίνος, αἰνός, Αἶνος, and ἄϊνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain. Pokorny suggests Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey- (“important speech”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /âi̯.nos/ → /ˈɛ.nos/ → /ˈe.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /âi̯.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈe.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈe.nos/

Noun

αἶνος • (aînos) m (genitive αἴνου); second declension

1. tale or story; story with a moral, fable
2. praise
   • St. Luke, The Gospel of Luke 18.43:

     καὶ παραχρῆμα ἀνέβλεψεν, καὶ ἠκολούθει αὐτῷ δοξάζων τὸν θεόν. καὶ πᾶς ὁ λαὸς ἰδὼν ἔδωκεν αἶνον τῷ θεῷ.

     kaì parakhrêma anéblepsen, kaì ēkoloúthei autôi doxázōn tòn theón. kaì pâs ho laòs idṑn édōken aînon tôi theôi.

     And immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise unto God. (King James Version)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ αἶνος; τοῦ αἴνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ αἶνος ho aînos	τὼ αἴνω tṑ aínō	οἱ αἶνοι hoi aînoi
Genitive	τοῦ αἴνου toû aínou	τοῖν αἴνοιν toîn aínoin	τῶν αἴνων tôn aínōn
Dative	τῷ αἴνῳ tôi aínōi	τοῖν αἴνοιν toîn aínoin	τοῖς αἴνοις toîs aínois
Accusative	τὸν αἶνον tòn aînon	τὼ αἴνω tṑ aínō	τοὺς αἴνους toùs aínous
Vocative	αἶνε aîne	αἴνω aínō	αἶνοι aînoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• Αἰνείᾱς (Aineíās) (perhaps)
• αἰνέω (ainéō)
• αἴνημι (aínēmi)
• αἰνίσσομαι (ainíssomai)
  • αἴνιγμα (aínigma)
• αἰνίζομαι (ainízomai)
• ἀναίνομαι (anaínomai)

Descendants

• Greek: αίνος (aínos)

Further reading

• “αἶνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “αἶνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “αἶνος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• αἶνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• αἶνος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• αἶνος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “αἶνος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G136 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• αἶνος 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
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • adage idem, page 10.
  • aenus idem, page 15.
  • aphorism idem, page 34.
  • commendation idem, page 147.
  • credit idem, page 183.
  • description idem, page 214.
  • eulogy idem, page 284.
  • laudation idem, page 478.
  • legend idem, page 484.
  • maxim idem, page 519.
  • myth idem, page 549.
  • narrative idem, page 551.
  • parable idem, page 591.
  • praise idem, page 631.
  • proverb idem, page 654.
  • saying idem, page 736.
  • tale idem, page 854.