χαυών

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• χαυνών (khaunṓn)

Etymology

From Hebrew.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰau̯.ɔ̌ːn/ → /xaˈβon/ → /xaˈvon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰau̯.ɔ̌ːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰaˈwon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /xaˈβon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xaˈvon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xaˈvon/

Noun

χαυών • (khauṓn) m (genitive χαυῶνος); third declension

1. kind of cake

Declension

Third declension of ὁ χαυών; τοῦ χαυῶνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ χαυών ho khauṓn	τὼ χαυῶνε tṑ khauône	οἱ χαυῶνες hoi khauônes
Genitive	τοῦ χαυῶνος toû khauônos	τοῖν χαυώνοιν toîn khauṓnoin	τῶν χαυώνων tôn khauṓnōn
Dative	τῷ χαυῶνῐ tôi khauôni	τοῖν χαυώνοιν toîn khauṓnoin	τοῖς χαυῶσῐ / χαυῶσῐν toîs khauôsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν χαυῶνᾰ tòn khauôna	τὼ χαυῶνε tṑ khauône	τοὺς χαυῶνᾰς toùs khauônas
Vocative	χαυών khauṓn	χαυῶνε khauône	χαυῶνες khauônes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “χαυών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χαυών 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