τέκνον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *teḱ-, perhaps via τίκτω (tíktō, “I bear”). Cognates include Old English þegen (“servant”), Old High German degan and possibly Sanskrit तोक (toka, “offspring, child”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /té.knon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈte.knon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈte.knon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈte.knon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈte.knon/
Noun
τέκνον • (téknon) n (genitive τέκνου); second declension
- child (of either gender)
- descendant
- young animal
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ τέκνον tò téknon |
τὼ τέκνω tṑ téknō |
τᾰ̀ τέκνᾰ tà tékna | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ τέκνου toû téknou |
τοῖν τέκνοιν toîn téknoin |
τῶν τέκνων tôn téknōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ τέκνῳ tôi téknōi |
τοῖν τέκνοιν toîn téknoin |
τοῖς τέκνοις toîs téknois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ τέκνον tò téknon |
τὼ τέκνω tṑ téknō |
τᾰ̀ τέκνᾰ tà tékna | ||||||||||
Vocative | τέκνον téknon |
τέκνω téknō |
τέκνᾰ tékna | ||||||||||
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Related terms
- τίκτω (tíktō)
Descendants
- Greek: τέκνο (tékno)
Further reading
- “τέκνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τέκνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “τέκνον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τέκνον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- τέκνον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “τέκνον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5043 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.
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the second declension