ἰπνός

See also: Ἴπνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *Hukʷ- (“cooking pot”) (compare Sanskrit उखा (ukhā), Old Armenian ակութ (akutʻ), Albanian anë, Latin ōlla, Proto-Germanic *uhnaz, *uhwnaz). Beekes suggests a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *sep- (“to boil, bake”), like Ancient Greek ἔψω (épsō, “to boil, seethe”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /i.pnós/ → /iˈpnos/ → /iˈpnos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /i.pnós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /iˈpnos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /iˈpnos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iˈpnos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈpnos/

Noun

ἰπνός • (ipnós) m (genitive ἰπνοῦ); second declension

1. oven, furnace
2. kitchen, the place of the oven
3. lantern

Declension

Second declension of ὁ ἰπνός; τοῦ ἰπνοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἰπνός ho ipnós	τὼ ἰπνώ tṑ ipnṓ	οἱ ἰπνοί hoi ipnoí
Genitive	τοῦ ἰπνοῦ toû ipnoû	τοῖν ἰπνοῖν toîn ipnoîn	τῶν ἰπνῶν tôn ipnôn
Dative	τῷ ἰπνῷ tôi ipnôi	τοῖν ἰπνοῖν toîn ipnoîn	τοῖς ἰπνοῖς toîs ipnoîs
Accusative	τὸν ἰπνόν tòn ipnón	τὼ ἰπνώ tṑ ipnṓ	τοὺς ἰπνούς toùs ipnoús
Vocative	ἰπνέ ipné	ἰπνώ ipnṓ	ἰπνοί ipnoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἰπνεύω (ipneúō)
• ἰπνίον (ipníon)
• ἴπνιος (ípnios)
• ἰπνίτης (ipnítēs)
• ἰπνολέβης (ipnolébēs)
• ἰπνοπλάθος (ipnopláthos)
• ἰπνών (ipnṓn)

 

References

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