ὄλυνθος

See also: Ὄλυνθος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὄλονθος (ólonthos)

Etymology

A technical Pre-Greek word, with suffix in -νθ-.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ó.lyn.tʰos/ → /ˈo.lyn.θos/ → /ˈo.lin.θos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ó.lyn.tʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈo.lyn.tʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.lyn.θos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.lyn.θos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.lin.θos/

Noun

ὄλῠνθος • (ólunthos) m (genitive ὀλῠ́νθου); second declension

1. fruit of the wild fig

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ὄλῠνθος; τοῦ ὀλῠ́νθου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὄλῠνθος ho ólunthos	τὼ ὀλῠ́νθω tṑ olúnthō	οἱ ὄλῠνθοι hoi ólunthoi
Genitive	τοῦ ὀλῠ́νθου toû olúnthou	τοῖν ὀλῠ́νθοιν toîn olúnthoin	τῶν ὀλῠ́νθων tôn olúnthōn
Dative	τῷ ὀλῠ́νθῳ tôi olúnthōi	τοῖν ὀλῠ́νθοιν toîn olúnthoin	τοῖς ὀλῠ́νθοις toîs olúnthois
Accusative	τὸν ὄλῠνθον tòn ólunthon	τὼ ὀλῠ́νθω tṑ olúnthō	τοὺς ὀλῠ́νθους toùs olúnthous
Vocative	ὄλῠνθε ólunthe	ὀλῠ́νθω olúnthō	ὄλῠνθοι ólunthoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὀλυνθάζω (oluntházō)
• ὀλύνθη (olúnthē)
• ὀλυνθοφορέω (olunthophoréō)
• ὀλυνθοφόρος (olunthophóros)

 

Further reading

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