ὤκιμον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Acording to Beekes, probably from . The connection with ἀκή (akḗ) and ἄκαινα (ákaina) is folk-etymological.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̌ː.ki.mon/ → /ˈo.ci.mon/ → /ˈo.ci.mon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɔ̌ː.ki.mon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ki.mon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ci.mon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ci.mon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ci.mon/

Noun

ὤκῐμον • (ṓkimon) n (genitive ὠκῐ́μου); second declension

1. basil

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ὤκῐμον; τοῦ ὠκῐ́μου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ὤκῐμον tò ṓkimon	τὼ ὠκῐ́μω tṑ ōkímō	τᾰ̀ ὤκῐμᾰ tà ṓkima
Genitive	τοῦ ὠκῐ́μου toû ōkímou	τοῖν ὠκῐ́μοιν toîn ōkímoin	τῶν ὠκῐ́μων tôn ōkímōn
Dative	τῷ ὠκῐ́μῳ tôi ōkímōi	τοῖν ὠκῐ́μοιν toîn ōkímoin	τοῖς ὠκῐ́μοις toîs ōkímois
Accusative	τὸ ὤκῐμον tò ṓkimon	τὼ ὠκῐ́μω tṑ ōkímō	τᾰ̀ ὤκῐμᾰ tà ṓkima
Vocative	ὤκῐμον ṓkimon	ὠκῐ́μω ōkímō	ὤκῐμᾰ ṓkima
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὠκῐ́μινος (ōkíminos)
• ὠκῐμοειδές (ōkimoeidés)

Descendants

• Translingual: Ocimum
• Latin: ōcimus

References

• “ὤκιμον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὤκιμον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
• ὤκιμον 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