ὀβελισκολύχνιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὀβελίσκος (obelískos, “spit, obelisk”) +‎ λυχνίον (lukhníon, “lampholder”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /o.be.lis.ko.lý.kʰni.on/ → /o.βe.lis.koˈly.xni.on/ → /o.ve.lis.koˈli.xni.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /o.be.lis.ko.lý.kʰni.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /o.be.lis.koˈly.kʰni.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /o.βe.lis.koˈly.xni.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /o.ve.lis.koˈly.xni.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /o.ve.lis.koˈli.xni.on/

Noun

ὀβελῐσκολῠ́χνῐον • (obeliskolúkhnion) n (genitive ὀβελῐσκολῠχνῐ́ου); second declension

1. spit used as a lampholder by soldiers

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ὀβελῐσκολῠ́χνῐον; τοῦ ὀβελῐσκολῠχνῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ὀβελῐσκολῠ́χνῐον tò obeliskolúkhnion	τὼ ὀβελῐσκολῠχνῐ́ω tṑ obeliskolukhníō	τᾰ̀ ὀβελῐσκολῠ́χνῐᾰ tà obeliskolúkhnia
Genitive	τοῦ ὀβελῐσκολῠχνῐ́ου toû obeliskolukhníou	τοῖν ὀβελῐσκολῠχνῐ́οιν toîn obeliskolukhníoin	τῶν ὀβελῐσκολῠχνῐ́ων tôn obeliskolukhníōn
Dative	τῷ ὀβελῐσκολῠχνῐ́ῳ tôi obeliskolukhníōi	τοῖν ὀβελῐσκολῠχνῐ́οιν toîn obeliskolukhníoin	τοῖς ὀβελῐσκολῠχνῐ́οις toîs obeliskolukhníois
Accusative	τὸ ὀβελῐσκολῠ́χνῐον tò obeliskolúkhnion	τὼ ὀβελῐσκολῠχνῐ́ω tṑ obeliskolukhníō	τᾰ̀ ὀβελῐσκολῠ́χνῐᾰ tà obeliskolúkhnia
Vocative	ὀβελῐσκολῠ́χνῐον obeliskolúkhnion	ὀβελῐσκολῠχνῐ́ω obeliskolukhníō	ὀβελῐσκολῠ́χνῐᾰ obeliskolúkhnia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: obeliscolychny

Further reading

• “ὀβελισκολύχνιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὀβελισκολύχνιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette