πάχνη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From earlier *πάκσνά (páksná), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-, like πήγνυμι (pḗgnumi, “I fasten”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pá.kʰnɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpa.kʰne̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpa.xni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpa.xni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpa.xni/
Noun
πάχνη • (pákhnē) f (genitive πάχνης); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ πάχνη hē pákhnē |
τὼ πάχνᾱ tṑ pákhnā |
αἱ πάχναι hai pákhnai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς πάχνης tês pákhnēs |
τοῖν πάχναιν toîn pákhnain |
τῶν παχνῶν tôn pakhnôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ πάχνῃ tēî pákhnēi |
τοῖν πάχναιν toîn pákhnain |
ταῖς πάχναις taîs pákhnais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν πάχνην tḕn pákhnēn |
τὼ πάχνᾱ tṑ pákhnā |
τᾱ̀ς πάχνᾱς tā̀s pákhnās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πάχνη pákhnē |
πάχνᾱ pákhnā |
πάχναι pákhnai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- παχνήεις (pakhnḗeis)
- παχνόω (pakhnóō)
- παχνώδης (pakhnṓdēs)
Descendants
- Greek: πάχνη (páchni)
References
- “πάχνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πάχνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πάχνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- frost idem, page 347.
- hoar frost idem, page 401.
- rime idem, page 715.
- πάχνη, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
Greek
Etymology
Ancient Greek πάχνη (pákhnē)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpa.xni/
Noun
πάχνη • (páchni) f (uncountable)
Declension
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | πάχνη (páchni) |
| genitive | πάχνης (páchnis) |
| accusative | πάχνη (páchni) |
| vocative | πάχνη (páchni) |
Synonyms
- δροσόπαγος m (drosópagos)
- πάγος m (págos)
Further reading
- πάχνη on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
- πάχνη, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language