πατάνη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πατάνᾱ (patánā) — Doric
• πάτανον (pátanon)

Etymology

Probably a Pre-Greek word, as per Furnée, who connects πέταχνον (pétakhnon, “broad flat cup”); also compare the suffix of λεκάνη (lekánē, “dish, pot”) and οὐράνη (ouránē, “chamber-pot”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pa.tá.nɛː/ → /paˈta.ni/ → /paˈta.ni/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pa.tá.nɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /paˈta.ne̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /paˈta.ni/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /paˈta.ni/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /paˈta.ni/

Noun

πᾰτᾰ́νη • (patánē) f (genitive πᾰτᾰ́νης); first declension

1. kind of flat dish

Inflection

First declension of ἡ πᾰτᾰ́νη; τῆς πᾰτᾰ́νης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πᾰτᾰ́νη hē patánē	τὼ πᾰτᾰ́νᾱ tṑ patánā	αἱ πᾰτᾰ́ναι hai patánai
Genitive	τῆς πᾰτᾰ́νης tês patánēs	τοῖν πᾰτᾰ́ναιν toîn patánain	τῶν πᾰτᾰνῶν tôn patanôn
Dative	τῇ πᾰτᾰ́νῃ têi patánēi	τοῖν πᾰτᾰ́ναιν toîn patánain	ταῖς πᾰτᾰ́ναις taîs patánais
Accusative	τὴν πᾰτᾰ́νην tḕn patánēn	τὼ πᾰτᾰ́νᾱ tṑ patánā	τᾱ̀ς πᾰτᾰ́νᾱς tā̀s patánās
Vocative	πᾰτᾰ́νη patánē	πᾰτᾰ́νᾱ patánā	πᾰτᾰ́ναι patánai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πατάνεψις (patánepsis)

Descendants

• → Andalusian Arabic: بَطَانَة (baṭāna), پَطَانَة (paṭāna, “dishware or other large thing of little value”)
  • ⇒? Andalusian Arabic: الْمَاطَنَة (al-māṭana, “sledgehammer”)
    • → Aragonese: almadena, almadana
    • → Navarran: almadena
    • → Spanish: almádena, almádana, almádina; almáina, almaina
• → Latin: patina (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

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