νῶτον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• νῶτος (nôtos)

Etymology

There are no obvious cognates. If connected with Latin natis (“rump”), it can be either assumed a derivation from an old Proto-Indo-European root noun *n(e)h₃t- or a root *nh₂t-, which became thematicized in Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /nɔ̂ː.ton/ → /ˈno.ton/ → /ˈno.ton/

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

Noun

νῶτον • (nôton) n (genitive νώτου); second declension

1. back, the rear part of the body
2. chine of an animal served as food
3. (figuratively) any wide surface, especially of the sea
4. ridge of a hill, rock, saw
5. back of a page

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ νῶτον; τοῦ νώτου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ νῶτον tò nôton	τὼ νώτω tṑ nṓtō	τᾰ̀ νῶτᾰ tà nôta
Genitive	τοῦ νώτου toû nṓtou	τοῖν νώτοιν toîn nṓtoin	τῶν νώτων tôn nṓtōn
Dative	τῷ νώτῳ tôi nṓtōi	τοῖν νώτοιν toîn nṓtoin	τοῖς νώτοις toîs nṓtois
Accusative	τὸ νῶτον tò nôton	τὼ νώτω tṑ nṓtō	τᾰ̀ νῶτᾰ tà nôta
Vocative	νῶτον nôton	νώτω nṓtō	νῶτᾰ nôta
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• νωταγωγός (nōtagōgós)
• νωτάκμων (nōtákmōn)
• νωτάρης (nōtárēs)
• νωτεύς (nōteús)
• νωτηγός (nōtēgós)
• νωτιαῖος (nōtiaîos)
• νωτιάς (nōtiás)
• νωτιδανός (nōtidanós)
• νωτίζω (nōtízō)
• νώτιος (nṓtios)
• νώτισμα (nṓtisma)
• νωτοβατέω (nōtobatéō)
• νωτόγραπτος (nōtógraptos)
• νωτοκοπέω (nōtokopéō)
• νωτοπλήξ (nōtoplḗx)
• νωτοστροφέω (nōtostrophéō)
• νωτοφόρος (nōtophóros)
• ποικιλόνωτος (poikilónōtos)

 

Descendants

• English: noto-
• Greek: νώτα (nóta) (plurale tantum)

Further reading

• “νῶτον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “νῶτον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “νῶτον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• νῶτον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• νῶτον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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