κανών
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Likely Pre-Greek, and generally connected with κάννα (kánna, “reed”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ka.nɔ̌ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kaˈnon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /kaˈnon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /kaˈnon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /kaˈnon/
Noun
κᾰνών • (kănṓn) m (genitive κᾰνόνος); third declension
- rod, pole, bar
- rods used in shields
- type of rod used in weaving
- measuring rod, carpenter's rule, plumb line, level
- (music) monochord
- something to judge by, rule, norm, general principle
- model, paradigm
- tax assessment, tax, tariff
- (music) qanun
- (militärisch) Kanönchen
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ κᾰνών ho kănṓn |
τὼ κᾰνόνε tṑ kănóne |
οἱ κᾰνόνες hoi kănónes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κᾰνόνος toû kănónos |
τοῖν κᾰνόνοιν toîn kănónoin |
τῶν κᾰνόνων tôn kănónōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κᾰνόνῐ tōî kănónĭ |
τοῖν κᾰνόνοιν toîn kănónoin |
τοῖς κᾰνόσῐ / κᾰνόσῐν toîs kănósĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν κᾰνόνᾰ tòn kănónă |
τὼ κᾰνόνε tṑ kănóne |
τοὺς κᾰνόνᾰς toùs kănónăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κᾰνών kănṓn |
κᾰνόνε kănóne |
κᾰνόνες kănónes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
Descendants
- Greek: κανόνας (kanónas)
- → Arabic: قَانُون (qānūn) (see there for further descendants)
- → Aramaic:
- → English: kanon
- → Georgian: კანონი (ḳanoni)
- → Hebrew: קָנוֹן (qānôn)
- → Latin: canōn (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Armenian: կանոն (kanon)
- Armenian: կանոն (kanon)
- → Romanian: canon
- → Russian: кану́н (kanún), кано́н (kanón)
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κανών, -όνος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 637
Further reading
- “κανών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κανών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κανών”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κανών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- κανών in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G2583 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- carpenter idem, page 114.
- criterion idem, page 184.
- measure idem, page 520.
- measuring rod idem, page 521.
- plumb-line idem, page 621.
- plummet idem, page 622.
- principle idem, page 641.
- rod idem, page 720.
- rule idem, page 725.
- standard idem, page 810.
- test idem, page 863.
- yard-measure idem, page 995.