σφάγνος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /spʰá.ɡnos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈspʰa.ɡnos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsɸa.ɣnos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsfa.ɣnos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsfa.ɣnos/
Noun
σφάγνος • (sphágnos) m (genitive σφάγνου); second declension
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Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ σφᾰ́γνος ho sphágnos |
τὼ σφᾰ́γνω tṑ sphágnō |
οἱ σφᾰ́γνοι hoi sphágnoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σφᾰ́γνου toû sphágnou |
τοῖν σφᾰ́γνοιν toîn sphágnoin |
τῶν σφᾰ́γνων tôn sphágnōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σφᾰ́γνῳ tôi sphágnōi |
τοῖν σφᾰ́γνοιν toîn sphágnoin |
τοῖς σφᾰ́γνοις toîs sphágnois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν σφᾰ́γνον tòn sphágnon |
τὼ σφᾰ́γνω tṑ sphágnō |
τοὺς σφᾰ́γνους toùs sphágnous | ||||||||||
Vocative | σφᾰ́γνε sphágne |
σφᾰ́γνω sphágnō |
σφᾰ́γνοι sphágnoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Translingual: Sphagnum
Further reading
- “σφάγνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σφάγνος 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