σπλάγχνον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Related to σπλήν (splḗn).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /spláŋ.kʰnon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsplaŋ.kʰnon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsplaŋ.xnon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsplaŋ.xnon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsplaŋ.xnon/
Noun
σπλᾰ́γχνον • (splánkhnon) n (genitive σπλᾰ́γχνου); second declension
- (chiefly in the plural) bowels, guts, inward part, internal organ
- (figurative) seat of feelings, heart
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ σπλᾰ́γχνον tò splánkhnon |
τὼ σπλᾰ́γχνω tṑ splánkhnō |
τᾰ̀ σπλᾰ́γχνᾰ tà splánkhna | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ σπλᾰ́γχνου toû splánkhnou |
τοῖν σπλᾰ́γχνοιν toîn splánkhnoin |
τῶν σπλᾰ́γχνων tôn splánkhnōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ σπλᾰ́γχνῳ tôi splánkhnōi |
τοῖν σπλᾰ́γχνοιν toîn splánkhnoin |
τοῖς σπλᾰ́γχνοις toîs splánkhnois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ σπλᾰ́γχνον tò splánkhnon |
τὼ σπλᾰ́γχνω tṑ splánkhnō |
τᾰ̀ σπλᾰ́γχνᾰ tà splánkhna | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σπλᾰ́γχνον splánkhnon |
σπλᾰ́γχνω splánkhnō |
σπλᾰ́γχνᾰ splánkhna | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: σπλάχνο (spláchno)
Further reading
- “σπλάγχνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σπλάγχνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “σπλάγχνον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- σπλάγχνον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.