ζυγόν

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ζυγός (zugós)

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *dzugón, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /zdy.ɡón/ → /zyˈɣon/ → /ziˈɣon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /zdy.ɡón/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /zyˈɡon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /zyˈɣon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /zyˈɣon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ziˈɣon/

Noun

ζῠγόν • (zŭgón) n (genitive ζῠγοῦ); second declension

1. yoke, for joining animals
2. yoke, burden
3. in general, anything which joins two pieces together: cross-bar, plank, beam
4. the balancing beam of a scale; the scale itself
5. (astrology) the constellation Libra
6. rank (of soldiers)

Usage notes

• Along with ᾠόν (ōión), λουτρόν (loutrón) and πτερόν (pterón), this is one of the very few neuter nouns that does not have a recessive accent.

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ζῠγόν; τοῦ ζῠγοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ζῠγόν tò zŭgón	τὼ ζῠγώ tṑ zŭgṓ	τᾰ̀ ζῠγᾰ́ tằ zŭgắ
Genitive	τοῦ ζῠγοῦ toû zŭgoû	τοῖν ζῠγοῖν toîn zŭgoîn	τῶν ζῠγῶν tôn zŭgôn
Dative	τῷ ζῠγῷ tōî zŭgōî	τοῖν ζῠγοῖν toîn zŭgoîn	τοῖς ζῠγοῖς toîs zŭgoîs
Accusative	τὸ ζῠγόν tò zŭgón	τὼ ζῠγώ tṑ zŭgṓ	τᾰ̀ ζῠγᾰ́ tằ zŭgắ
Vocative	ζῠγόν zŭgón	ζῠγώ zŭgṓ	ζῠγᾰ́ zŭgắ
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ζῠγουλκός (zŭgoulkós)
• ζυγόω (zugóō)
• ζυγωτός (zugōtós)
• σύζῠγος (súzŭgos)

Descendants

• Greek: ζυγός (zygós)

Further reading

• “ζυγόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ζυγόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• G2218 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• “ζυγόν”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ζυγόν in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ζυγόν in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ζυγόν”, 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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • couple idem, page 178.
  • pair idem, page 589.
  • scale idem, page 736.
  • strap idem, page 823.
  • yoke idem, page 996.
• ζυγόν, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011