ὑάκινθος
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Of Pre-Greek or other Mediterranean substrate origin and possibly related to Latin vaccinium.[1] Note the Pre-Greek suffix -ινθ- (-inth-).[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hy.á.kin.tʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)yˈa.kin.tʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /yˈa.cin.θos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /yˈa.cin.θos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /iˈa.cin.θos/
Noun
[edit]ῠ̔ᾰ́κινθος • (huákinthos) m (genitive ῠ̔ᾰκίνθου); second declension
- The alpine squill (Scilla bifolia)
- The larkspur (Consolida ajacis, syn. Delphinium ajacis)
- A certain type of blue
- Huákinthos, “dark red, purple”, again see Latin vaccinium
- A blue precious stone, perhaps aquamarine
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ὑάκινθος ho huákinthos |
τὼ ὑακίνθω tṑ huakínthō |
οἱ ὑάκινθοι hoi huákinthoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ὑακίνθου toû huakínthou |
τοῖν ὑακίνθοιν toîn huakínthoin |
τῶν ὑακίνθων tôn huakínthōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ὑακίνθῳ tôi huakínthōi |
τοῖν ὑακίνθοιν toîn huakínthoin |
τοῖς ὑακίνθοις toîs huakínthois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ὑάκινθον tòn huákinthon |
τὼ ὑακίνθω tṑ huakínthō |
τοὺς ὑακίνθους toùs huakínthous | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὑάκινθε huákinthe |
ὑακίνθω huakínthō |
ὑάκινθοι huákinthoi | ||||||||||
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Related terms
[edit]- Ὑάκινθος (Huákinthos)
Descendants
[edit]- Greek: υάκινθος (yákinthos)
- → Classical Syriac: ܝܩܘܢܕܐ (yāqūndāʾ, yaqqūndāʾ), ܝܘܩܢܛܐ (yūqanṭāʾ, “jacinth”)
- → Hebrew: יָקִינְתּוֹן (yakintón)
- → Latin: hyacinthus
- → Middle Persian: yʾknd (yākand, “ruby”)
- Persian: یاکند (yâkand)
- → Old Armenian: յակինթ (yakintʻ), յակինթոս (yakintʻos), յակունդ (yakund), յակինդ (yakind), յաթինկոս (yatʻinkos) — misspelling
- → Old Church Slavonic: акинтъ (akintŭ), акунтъ (akuntŭ), ꙗкинфъ (jakinfŭ)
- → Parthian:
- Manichaean script: 𐫏𐫀𐫐𐫇𐫗𐫅 (yʾkwnd /yākund/)
- → Sogdian: [script needed] (yγwth /yaγūt/, “ruby”)
References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ὑάκινθος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1523
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2014) “ὑάκινθος”, in Stefan Norbruis, editor, Pre-Greek: Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 70
Further reading
[edit]- “ὑάκινθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὑάκινθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὑάκινθος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὑάκινθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὑάκινθος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G5192 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
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