νῶτον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *not- (“rear, buttock”); related to Latin natis (“rump”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /nɔ̂ː.ton/ → /ˈno.ton/ → /ˈno.ton/

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

Noun

νῶτον • (nôton) n (genitive νώτου); second declension

1. the back, the rear part of the body

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ νῶτον; τοῦ νώτου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ νῶτον tò nôton	τὼ νώτω tṑ nṓtō	τᾰ̀ νῶτᾰ tà nôta
Genitive	τοῦ νώτου toû nṓtou	τοῖν νώτοιν toîn nṓtoin	τῶν νώτων tôn nṓtōn
Dative	τῷ νώτῳ tôi nṓtōi	τοῖν νώτοιν toîn nṓtoin	τοῖς νώτοις toîs nṓtois
Accusative	τὸ νῶτον tò nôton	τὼ νώτω tṑ nṓtō	τᾰ̀ νῶτᾰ tà nôta
Vocative	νῶτον nôton	νώτω nṓtō	νῶτᾰ nôta
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• English: noto-
• Greek: νώτα (nóta) (plurale tantum)

Further reading

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