ζωγάνης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Lewy connects the word to Hebrew סגן (ségen, “title for a Jewish priest of the Temple in Jerusalem; second-in-command”), suggesting a Semitic origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /zdɔː.ɡá.nɛːs/ → /zoˈɣa.nis/ → /zoˈɣa.nis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /zdɔː.ɡá.nɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /zoˈɡa.ne̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /zoˈɣa.nis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /zoˈɣa.nis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /zoˈɣa.nis/

Noun

ζωγᾰ́νης • (zōgánēs) m (genitive ζωγᾰ́νου); first declension

1. slave-king at festivals in Babylonia

Inflection

First declension of ὁ ζωγᾰ́νης; τοῦ ζωγᾰ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ζωγᾰ́νης ho zōgánēs	τὼ ζωγᾰ́νᾱ tṑ zōgánā	οἱ ζωγᾰ́ναι hoi zōgánai
Genitive	τοῦ ζωγᾰ́νου toû zōgánou	τοῖν ζωγᾰ́ναιν toîn zōgánain	τῶν ζωγᾰνῶν tôn zōganôn
Dative	τῷ ζωγᾰ́νῃ tôi zōgánēi	τοῖν ζωγᾰ́ναιν toîn zōgánain	τοῖς ζωγᾰ́ναις toîs zōgánais
Accusative	τὸν ζωγᾰ́νην tòn zōgánēn	τὼ ζωγᾰ́νᾱ tṑ zōgánā	τοὺς ζωγᾰ́νᾱς toùs zōgánās
Vocative	ζωγᾰ́νη zōgánē	ζωγᾰ́νᾱ zōgánā	ζωγᾰ́ναι zōgánai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ζωγάνης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ζωγάνης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Lewy, Heinrich (1895) Die semitischen Fremdwörter im Griechischen (in German), Berlin: R. Gaertner’s Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 129