κτένιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κτείς (kteís, “a comb”) + -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kté.ni.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkte.ni.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkte.ni.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkte.ni.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkte.ni.on/
Noun
κτένῐον • (kténĭon) n (genitive κτενῐ́ου); second declension
- diminutive of κτείς (kteís)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ κτένῐον tò kténĭon |
τὼ κτενῐ́ω tṑ ktenĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ κτένῐᾰ tằ kténĭă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κτενῐ́ου toû ktenĭ́ou |
τοῖν κτενῐ́οιν toîn ktenĭ́oin |
τῶν κτενῐ́ων tôn ktenĭ́ōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κτενῐ́ῳ tōî ktenĭ́ōi |
τοῖν κτενῐ́οιν toîn ktenĭ́oin |
τοῖς κτενῐ́οις toîs ktenĭ́ois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ κτένῐον tò kténĭon |
τὼ κτενῐ́ω tṑ ktenĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ κτένῐᾰ tằ kténĭă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κτένῐον kténĭon |
κτενῐ́ω ktenĭ́ō |
κτένῐᾰ kténĭă | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Further reading
- “κτένιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κτένιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κτένιον in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften