γίγαρτον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Reduplicated formation. It is often connected with grānum (“seed, kernel”) and Old High German kerno (“pit, stone”), which is formally improbable. According to Beekes, the word is rather a Pre-Greek loan.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɡí.ɡar.ton/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈɡi.ɡar.ton/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈʝi.ɣar.ton/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈʝi.ɣar.ton/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈʝi.ɣar.ton/
Noun
γῐ́γᾰρτον • (gĭ́gărton) n (genitive γῐγᾰ́ρτου); second declension
- grapestone, seed of the grape
- pit of the olive
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ γῐ́γᾰρτον tò gĭ́gărton |
τὼ γῐγᾰ́ρτω tṑ gĭgắrtō |
τᾰ̀ γῐ́γᾰρτᾰ tằ gĭ́gărtă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ γῐγᾰ́ρτου toû gĭgắrtou |
τοῖν γῐγᾰ́ρτοιν toîn gĭgắrtoin |
τῶν γῐγᾰ́ρτων tôn gĭgắrtōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ γῐγᾰ́ρτῳ tōî gĭgắrtōi |
τοῖν γῐγᾰ́ρτοιν toîn gĭgắrtoin |
τοῖς γῐγᾰ́ρτοις toîs gĭgắrtois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ γῐ́γᾰρτον tò gĭ́gărton |
τὼ γῐγᾰ́ρτω tṑ gĭgắrtō |
τᾰ̀ γῐ́γᾰρτᾰ tằ gĭ́gărtă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | γῐ́γᾰρτον gĭ́gărton |
γῐγᾰ́ρτω gĭgắrtō |
γῐ́γᾰρτᾰ gĭ́gărtă | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- γιγαρτικός (gigartikós)
- γιγαρτίς (gigartís)
- γιγαρτώδης (gigartṓdēs)
- γιγαρτώνιον (gigartṓnion)
Further reading
- “γίγαρτον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- γίγαρτον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- γίγαρτον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- 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