παγκράτιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From παγκρατής (pankratḗs, “all powerful”) + -ιον (-ion), from πᾰν- (păn-, “all, every”) + κράτος (krátos, “strength, power”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /paŋ.krá.ti.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /paŋˈkra.ti.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /paŋˈɡra.ti.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /paŋˈɡra.ti.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /paŋˈɡra.ti.on/
Noun
πᾰγκρᾰ́τῐον • (pănkrắtĭon) n (genitive πᾰγκρᾰτῐ́ου); second declension
- pankration, a complete contest, an exercise of the Greek youths which combined both wrestling and boxing
- Xenophanes 2(5).3
- sea onion (Drimia maritima)
- Pedanius Dioscorides, Materia Medica 2.203
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ πᾰγκρᾰ́τῐον tò pănkrắtĭon |
τὼ πᾰγκρᾰτῐ́ω tṑ pănkrătĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ πᾰγκρᾰ́τῐᾰ tằ pănkrắtĭă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ πᾰγκρᾰτῐ́ου toû pănkrătĭ́ou |
τοῖν πᾰγκρᾰτῐ́οιν toîn pănkrătĭ́oin |
τῶν πᾰγκρᾰτῐ́ων tôn pănkrătĭ́ōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ πᾰγκρᾰτῐ́ῳ tōî pănkrătĭ́ōi |
τοῖν πᾰγκρᾰτῐ́οιν toîn pănkrătĭ́oin |
τοῖς πᾰγκρᾰτῐ́οις toîs pănkrătĭ́ois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ πᾰγκρᾰ́τῐον tò pănkrắtĭon |
τὼ πᾰγκρᾰτῐ́ω tṑ pănkrătĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ πᾰγκρᾰ́τῐᾰ tằ pănkrắtĭă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πᾰγκρᾰ́τῐον pănkrắtĭon |
πᾰγκρᾰτῐ́ω pănkrătĭ́ō |
πᾰγκρᾰ́τῐᾰ pănkrắtĭă | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- πᾰγκρᾰτῐᾰ́ζω (pănkrătĭắzō)
- πᾰγκρᾰτῐᾰστής (pănkrătĭăstḗs)
- πᾰγκρᾰτῐᾰστῐκός (pănkrătĭăstĭkós)
Descendants
- → English: pankration
- → Latin: pancratium, pancration
- → English: pancratium
- → French: pancrace
Further reading
- “παγκράτιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “παγκράτιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- παγκράτιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “παγκράτιον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- παγκράτιον 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