νόννος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Onomatopoeic word; compare Latin nonnus (“monk; old person”), Proto-Celtic *nana (“grandmother”), Sanskrit नना (nanā, “mother, mama”), Russian ня́ня (njánja, “nurse”). Within Greek, there are also νέννος (nénnos, “uncle”), νάννας (nánnas, “uncle”) and νίννη (nínnē, “grandmother”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /nón.nos/ → /ˈnon.nos/ → /ˈno.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /nón.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈnon.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈnon.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈnon.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈno.nos/

Noun

νόννος • (nónnos) m (genitive νόννου); second declension

1. father

   Synonym: πᾰτήρ (patḗr)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ νόννος; τοῦ νόννου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ νόννος ho nónnos	τὼ νόννω tṑ nónnō	οἱ νόννοι hoi nónnoi
Genitive	τοῦ νόννου toû nónnou	τοῖν νόννοιν toîn nónnoin	τῶν νόννων tôn nónnōn
Dative	τῷ νόννῳ tôi nónnōi	τοῖν νόννοιν toîn nónnoin	τοῖς νόννοις toîs nónnois
Accusative	τὸν νόννον tòn nónnon	τὼ νόννω tṑ nónnō	τοὺς νόννους toùs nónnous
Vocative	νόννε nónne	νόννω nónnō	νόννοι nónnoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “νόννος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 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