λουκάνικον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Latin lūcānica (“Lucanian sausage”).
Pronunciation
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /luˈka.ni.kon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /luˈka.ni.kon/
Noun
λουκάνικον • (loukánikon) n (genitive λουκανίκου); second declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ λουκάνικον tò loukánikon |
τᾰ̀ λουκάνικᾰ tằ loukánikă |
| Genitive | τοῦ λουκανίκου toû loukaníkou |
τῶν λουκανίκων tôn loukaníkōn |
| Dative | τῷ λουκανίκῳ tōî loukaníkōi |
τοῖς λουκανίκοις toîs loukaníkois |
| Accusative | τὸ λουκάνικον tò loukánikon |
τᾰ̀ λουκάνικᾰ tằ loukánikă |
| Vocative | λουκάνικον loukánikon |
λουκάνικᾰ loukánikă |
Descendants
- Greek: λουκάνικο (loukániko)
- → English: loukaniko
- → Albanian: llukanik
- → Aramaic: לוקניק (lūqānīq), נוקניק (nūqānīq)
- → Bulgarian: луканка (lukanka)
- → Macedonian: луканец (lukanec)
- → Aromanian: lucánic, lucánica, culucancu
- → Romanian: lucanică (rare)
- → Aromanian: lucánic, lucánica, culucancu
Further reading
- λουκάνικον, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900) “λουκάνικον”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 721