ἐλλύχνιον
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Neutral form of ἐλλύχνιος (ellúkhnios, “produced for lamp-wicks”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /el.lý.kʰni.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /elˈly.kʰni.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /elˈly.xni.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /elˈly.xni.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /eˈli.xni.on/
Noun
[edit]ἐλλῠ́χνῐον • (ellúkhnion) n (genitive ἐλλῠχνῐ́ου); second declension
- lamp-wick, wick
- Synonym: θρυαλλίς (thruallís)
- (medicine) surgical bandage
- lampwick plant (Phlomis lychnitis)
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ἐλλῠ́χνῐον tò ellúkhnion |
τὼ ἐλλῠχνῐ́ω tṑ ellukhníō |
τᾰ̀ ἐλλῠ́χνῐᾰ tà ellúkhnia | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ἐλλῠχνῐ́ου toû ellukhníou |
τοῖν ἐλλῠχνῐ́οιν toîn ellukhníoin |
τῶν ἐλλῠχνῐ́ων tôn ellukhníōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ἐλλῠχνῐ́ῳ tôi ellukhníōi |
τοῖν ἐλλῠχνῐ́οιν toîn ellukhníoin |
τοῖς ἐλλῠχνῐ́οις toîs ellukhníois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ἐλλῠ́χνῐον tò ellúkhnion |
τὼ ἐλλῠχνῐ́ω tṑ ellukhníō |
τᾰ̀ ἐλλῠ́χνῐᾰ tà ellúkhnia | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἐλλῠ́χνῐον ellúkhnion |
ἐλλῠχνῐ́ω ellukhníō |
ἐλλῠ́χνῐᾰ ellúkhnia | ||||||||||
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Descendants
[edit]- → Translingual: Ellychnia
Further reading
[edit]- “ἐλλύχνιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἐλλύχνιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐλλύχνιον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)