πήγανον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Compare Georgian ტეგანი (ṭegani, “rue”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pɛ̌ː.ɡa.non/ → /ˈpi.ɣa.non/ → /ˈpi.ɣa.non/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pɛ̌ː.ɡa.non/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpe̝.ɡa.non/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ɣa.non/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ɣa.non/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ɣa.non/

Noun

πήγᾰνον • (pḗganon) n (genitive πηγᾰ́νου); second declension

1. rue, a plant from the genus Ruta.

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ πήγᾰνον; τοῦ πηγᾰ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πήγᾰνον tò pḗganon	τὼ πηγᾰ́νω tṑ pēgánō	τᾰ̀ πήγᾰνᾰ tà pḗgana
Genitive	τοῦ πηγᾰ́νου toû pēgánou	τοῖν πηγᾰ́νοιν toîn pēgánoin	τῶν πηγᾰ́νων tôn pēgánōn
Dative	τῷ πηγᾰ́νῳ tôi pēgánōi	τοῖν πηγᾰ́νοιν toîn pēgánoin	τοῖς πηγᾰ́νοις toîs pēgánois
Accusative	τὸ πήγᾰνον tò pḗganon	τὼ πηγᾰ́νω tṑ pēgánō	τᾰ̀ πήγᾰνᾰ tà pḗgana
Vocative	πήγᾰνον pḗganon	πηγᾰ́νω pēgánō	πήγᾰνᾰ pḗgana
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πηγάνινος (pēgáninos)

Descendants

• → Aramaic:
  • Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: פיגנא (pejgānā)
  • Classical Syriac: ܦܝܓܢܐ (pejgānā), ܦܓܢܐ (feggān), ܦܝܓܘܢ (feygōn), ܦܐܓܢܘܢ (feggānōn), ܦܝܓܐܢܘܢ (feygānōn)
    • → Old Armenian: փեգանայ (pʻeganay), փեգենայ (pʻegenay)
  • → Arabic: فَيْجَن (fayjan)
• → Latin: pēganum
• → Persian: پیغن (pejğan)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: پیغن (pejğan)

References

• “πήγανον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πήγανον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πήγανον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G4076 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • rue idem, page 724.
• 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
• Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen‎^[2] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, pages 370–372
• Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 33