ὤκιμον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Natively connected with ἀκή (akḗ) and ἄκαινα (ákaina) from a root related to sharpness, but this does not explain the initial ὤ-. According to Beekes, the presence of similar words ἄκινος (ákinos, “wild basil”) and ὤκινον (ṓkinon, “clover”) shows Pre-Greek origin. Löw and Nöldeke explain with a borrowing from Aramaic, retained in Classical Syriac ܚܘܟܐ (ḥawkā, “basil”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̌ː.ki.mon/ → /ˈo.ci.mon/ → /ˈo.ci.mon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɔ̌ː.ki.mon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ki.mon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ci.mon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ci.mon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ci.mon/

Noun

ὤκῐμον • (ṓkimon) n (genitive ὠκῐ́μου); second declension

1. basil (Ocimum basilicum)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ὤκῐμον; τοῦ ὠκῐ́μου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ὤκῐμον tò ṓkimon	τὼ ὠκῐ́μω tṑ ōkímō	τᾰ̀ ὤκῐμᾰ tà ṓkima
Genitive	τοῦ ὠκῐ́μου toû ōkímou	τοῖν ὠκῐ́μοιν toîn ōkímoin	τῶν ὠκῐ́μων tôn ōkímōn
Dative	τῷ ὠκῐ́μῳ tôi ōkímōi	τοῖν ὠκῐ́μοιν toîn ōkímoin	τοῖς ὠκῐ́μοις toîs ōkímois
Accusative	τὸ ὤκῐμον tò ṓkimon	τὼ ὠκῐ́μω tṑ ōkímō	τᾰ̀ ὤκῐμᾰ tà ṓkima
Vocative	ὤκῐμον ṓkimon	ὠκῐ́μω ōkímō	ὤκῐμᾰ ṓkima
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὠκῐ́μινος (ōkíminos)
• ὠκῐμοειδές (ōkimoeidés)
• ὠκῐμοειδής (ōkimoeidḗs)
• ὠκῐμώδης (ōkimṓdēs)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: ōcimus
• → Translingual: Ocimum

Further reading

• “ὤκιμον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὤκιμον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὤκιμον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden‎^[1] (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 79
• Moattar, Fariborz (1971) Ismāʻīl Ǧorǧānī und seine Bedeutung für die iranische Heilkunde, insbesondere Pharmazie, unter Berücksichtigung seiner Verdienste für die Gestaltung der neupersischen Sprache (in German), Marburg an der Lahn: Görich & Weiershäuser, page 233
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
• 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