μάλδακον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Furnée thinks it is a Semitic loan standing for *μαδαλκον (*madalkon), and compares בְּדֹלַח (bdólakh) and Akkadian 𒁉𒁺𒌨𒄷 (bidurḫu).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mál.da.kon/ → /ˈmal.ða.kon/ → /ˈmal.ða.kon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mál.da.kon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmal.da.kon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmal.ða.kon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmal.ða.kon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmal.ða.kon/

Noun

μάλδακον • (máldakon) n (genitive μαλδάκου); second declension

1. bdellium

   Synonym: βδέλλιον (bdéllion)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ μάλδακον; τοῦ μαλδάκου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ μάλδακον tò máldakon	τὼ μαλδάκω tṑ maldákō	τᾰ̀ μάλδακᾰ tà máldaka
Genitive	τοῦ μαλδάκου toû maldákou	τοῖν μαλδάκοιν toîn maldákoin	τῶν μαλδάκων tôn maldákōn
Dative	τῷ μαλδάκῳ tôi maldákōi	τοῖν μαλδάκοιν toîn maldákoin	τοῖς μαλδάκοις toîs maldákois
Accusative	τὸ μάλδακον tò máldakon	τὼ μαλδάκω tṑ maldákō	τᾰ̀ μάλδακᾰ tà máldaka
Vocative	μάλδακον máldakon	μαλδάκω maldákō	μάλδακᾰ máldaka
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: maldacon

Further reading

• “μάλδακον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μάλδακον 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