πώγων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably Pre-Greek, but see Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to attach, fix”).

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pɔ̌ː.ɡɔːn/ → /ˈpo.ɣon/ → /ˈpo.ɣon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pɔ̌ː.ɡɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.ɡon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.ɣon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.ɣon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.ɣon/

Noun

πώγων • (pṓgōn) m (genitive πώγωνος); third declension

1. beard

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ πώγων; τοῦ πώγωνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πώγων ho pṓgōn	τὼ πώγωνε tṑ pṓgōne	οἱ πώγωνες hoi pṓgōnes
Genitive	τοῦ πώγωνος toû pṓgōnos	τοῖν πωγώνοιν toîn pōgṓnoin	τῶν πωγώνων tôn pōgṓnōn
Dative	τῷ πώγωνῐ tōî pṓgōnĭ	τοῖν πωγώνοιν toîn pōgṓnoin	τοῖς πώγωσῐ / πώγωσῐν toîs pṓgōsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν πώγωνᾰ tòn pṓgōnă	τὼ πώγωνε tṑ pṓgōne	τοὺς πώγωνᾰς toùs pṓgōnăs
Vocative	πώγων pṓgōn	πώγωνε pṓgōne	πώγωνες pṓgōnes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• γενειάς (geneiás)

Derived terms

• πωγώνιον (pōgṓnion)
• πωγωνοτροφία (pōgōnotrophía)
• πωγωνοφόρος (pōgōnophóros)
• τραγοπώγων (tragopṓgōn)

Descendants

• → English: pogono-

Further reading

• “πώγων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πώγων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πώγων in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • beard idem, page 67.
• 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

Greek

Noun

πώγων • (pógon) m (plural πώγωνες)

1. (Katharevousa) see πώγωνας (pógonas) in Modern Greek

Declension

Katharevousa, as in the ancient inflection

References

• Dimitrakos, Dimitrios B. (1964) [1936–1950], Μέγα λεξικόν ὅλης τῆς Ἑλληνικῆς γλώσσης [Méga lexikón hólēs tês Hellēnikês glṓssēs, Great Dictionary of the entire Greek Language] (in Katharevousa), 2nd edition (in 15 volumes), Athens: Hellenic Paideia (abbreviations - of authors)

Further reading

• πώγων on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el