ἄκανθος
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ἀκή (akḗ, “thorn”) + ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /á.kan.tʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈa.kan.tʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.kan.θos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.kan.θos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.kan.θos/
Noun
[edit]ἄκᾰνθος • (ákanthos) m or f (genitive ἀκᾰ́νθου); second declension
- The acanthus plant
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ἄκᾰνθος ho ákanthos |
τὼ ἀκᾰ́νθω tṑ akánthō |
οἱ ἄκᾰνθοι hoi ákanthoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ἀκᾰ́νθου toû akánthou |
τοῖν ἀκᾰ́νθοιν toîn akánthoin |
τῶν ἀκᾰ́νθων tôn akánthōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ἀκᾰ́νθῳ tôi akánthōi |
τοῖν ἀκᾰ́νθοιν toîn akánthoin |
τοῖς ἀκᾰ́νθοις toîs akánthois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ἄκᾰνθον tòn ákanthon |
τὼ ἀκᾰ́νθω tṑ akánthō |
τοὺς ἀκᾰ́νθους toùs akánthous | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἄκᾰνθε ákanthe |
ἀκᾰ́νθω akánthō |
ἄκᾰνθοι ákanthoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
[edit]- → Latin: acanthus
Further reading
[edit]- “ἄκανθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄκανθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἄκανθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄκανθος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂eḱ-
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- grc:Acanthus family plants