ἄνισον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἄννησον (ánnēson)

Etymology

Borrowed from Egyptian jnst (“a medicinal plant, possibly anise”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /á.niː.son/ → /ˈa.ni.son/ → /ˈa.ni.son/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /á.niː.son/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ni.son/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ni.son/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ni.son/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ni.son/

Noun

ἄνῑσον • (ánīson) n (genitive ἀνῑ́σου); second declension

1. anise

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ἄνῑσον; τοῦ ἀνῑ́σου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἄνῑσον tò ánīson	τὼ ἀνῑ́σω tṑ anī́sō	τᾰ̀ ἄνῑσᾰ tà ánīsa
Genitive	τοῦ ἀνῑ́σου toû anī́sou	τοῖν ἀνῑ́σοιν toîn anī́soin	τῶν ἀνῑ́σων tôn anī́sōn
Dative	τῷ ἀνῑ́σῳ tôi anī́sōi	τοῖν ἀνῑ́σοιν toîn anī́soin	τοῖς ἀνῑ́σοις toîs anī́sois
Accusative	τὸ ἄνῑσον tò ánīson	τὼ ἀνῑ́σω tṑ anī́sō	τᾰ̀ ἄνῑσᾰ tà ánīsa
Vocative	ἄνῑσον ánīson	ἀνῑ́σω anī́sō	ἄνῑσᾰ ánīsa
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Arabic: أَنِيسُون (ʔanīsūn), يَنْسُون (yansūn), يَانْسُون (yānsūn), أَنْسُون (ʔansūn)
  • → Persian: انیسون (anisun)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: آناصون (anason, anasun) (see there for further descendants)
• → Latin: anīsum
  • Italian: anice
  • Old French: anis
    • French: anis (see there for further descendants)
    • Norman: anis
    • → Middle Dutch: anis
      • Dutch: anijs
        • Afrikaans: anys
        • → Indonesian: anis
        • → Sranan Tongo: aneisi
    • → Middle English: anys
      • English: anise
      • Scots: anis (obsolete)
  • Old Occitan:
    • Catalan: anís
    • Occitan: anís
  • Sardinian: anis
• → Middle Armenian: անիսոն (anison)

Further reading

• “ἄνισον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄνισον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄνισον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)