γλήχων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, since the word has no etymology, and since the stem formation is strange, it is probably a Pre-Greek word. Nonetheless a Proto-Hellenic reconstruction *gʷlā́kʰōn is possible.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɡlɛ̌ː.kʰɔːn/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡle̝.kʰon/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɣli.xon/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈɣli.xon/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈɣli.xon/

Noun

γλήχων • (glḗkhōn) f (genitive γλήχωνος); third declension

(Ionic) pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ γλήχων; τῆς γλήχωνος (Ionic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ γλήχων hē glḗkhōn	τὼ γλήχωνε tṑ glḗkhōne	αἱ γλήχωνες hai glḗkhōnes
Genitive	τῆς γλήχωνος tês glḗkhōnos	τοῖν γληχώνοιν toîn glēkhṓnoin	τῶν γληχώνων tôn glēkhṓnōn
Dative	τῇ γλήχωνῐ tēî glḗkhōnĭ	τοῖν γληχώνοιν toîn glēkhṓnoin	τῇσῐ / τῇσῐν γλήχωσῐ / γλήχωσῐν tēîsĭ(n) glḗkhōsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν γλήχωνᾰ tḕn glḗkhōnă	τὼ γλήχωνε tṑ glḗkhōne	τᾱ̀ς γλήχωνᾰς tā̀s glḗkhōnăs
Vocative	γλήχων glḗkhōn	γλήχωνε glḗkhōne	γλήχωνες glḗkhōnes
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

Alternative forms

βληχώ (blēkhṓ)
βλήχων (blḗkhōn)
γλᾱ́χων (glā́khōn) — Doric

Descendants

Latin: glēchon

References

“γλήχων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
γλήχων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
γληχώ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
γλήχων, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
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