τηγάνιον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• τηγάνιν (tēgánin) — Byzantine

Etymology

From τάγηνον (tágēnon), τήγανον (tḗganon, “frying pan”) +‎ -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tiˈɣa.ni.on/ → /tiˈɣa.ni.on/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /te̝ˈɡa.ni.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /tiˈɣa.ni.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tiˈɣa.ni.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tiˈɣa.ni.on/

Noun

τηγάνιον • (tēgánion) n (genitive τηγανίου); second declension

1. (Koine) frying pan, skillet

Declension

Second declension of τὸ τηγάνιον; τοῦ τηγανίου (Koine)

Case / #	Singular	Plural
Nominative	τὸ τηγάνιον tò tēgánion	τᾰ̀ τηγάνιᾰ tà tēgánia
Genitive	τοῦ τηγανίου toû tēganíou	τῶν τηγανίων tôn tēganíōn
Dative	τῷ τηγανίῳ tôi tēganíōi	τοῖς τηγανίοις toîs tēganíois
Accusative	τὸ τηγάνιον tò tēgánion	τᾰ̀ τηγάνιᾰ tà tēgánia
Vocative	τηγάνιον tēgánion	τηγάνιᾰ tēgánia

Descendants

• Byzantine Greek: τηγάνιν (tēgánin)
  • Greek: τηγάνι (tigáni)
  • Calabrian Greek: [Term?] (/⁠tiɣā́ni⁠/)
  • → Albanian: tigan
  • → Hebrew: טיגן (tigén)
  • →⇒ Italian: tegame
  • → Macedonian: тиган (tigan)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: طغان (tığan)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: tìgānj／тѝга̄њ

Further reading

• “τηγάνιον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “τηγάνιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press