πάχνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-, like πήγνυμι (pḗgnumi, “I fasten”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pá.kʰnɛː/ → /ˈpa.xni/ → /ˈpa.xni/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pá.kʰnɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.kʰne̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.xni/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.xni/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.xni/

Noun

πάχνη • (pákhnē) f (genitive πάχνης); first declension

1. hoarfrost, rime

   Synonym: στίβη (stíbē)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ πάχνη; τῆς πάχνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πάχνη hē pákhnē	τὼ πάχνᾱ tṑ pákhnā	αἱ πάχναι hai pákhnai
Genitive	τῆς πάχνης tês pákhnēs	τοῖν πάχναιν toîn pákhnain	τῶν παχνῶν tôn pakhnôn
Dative	τῇ πάχνῃ têi pákhnēi	τοῖν πάχναιν toîn pákhnain	ταῖς πάχναις taîs pákhnais
Accusative	τὴν πάχνην tḕn pákhnēn	τὼ πάχνᾱ tṑ pákhnā	τᾱ̀ς πάχνᾱς tā̀s pákhnās
Vocative	πάχνη pákhnē	πάχνᾱ pákhnā	πάχναι pákhnai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• παχνήεις (pakhnḗeis)
• παχνόω (pakhnóō)
• παχνώδης (pakhnṓdēs)

 

Descendants

• Greek: πάχνη (páchni)

References

• “πάχνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πάχνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πάχνη 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

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Greek

Noun

πάχνη • (páchni) f (uncountable)

1. rime, hoarfrost

Declension

  πάχνη

case     \     number	singular
nominative	πάχνη •
genitive	πάχνης •
accusative	πάχνη •
vocative	πάχνη •

Synonyms

• δροσόπαγος m (drosópagos)
• πάγος m (págos)