σφάγνος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, of Pre-Greek origin, together with σφάκος (sphákos) and φάσκον (pháskon).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /spʰá.ɡnos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈspʰa.ɡnos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsɸa.ɣnos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsfa.ɣnos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsfa.ɣnos/
Noun
σφάγνος • (sphágnos) m (genitive σφάγνου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ σφᾰ́γνος ho sphắgnos |
τὼ σφᾰ́γνω tṑ sphắgnō |
οἱ σφᾰ́γνοι hoi sphắgnoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ σφᾰ́γνου toû sphắgnou |
τοῖν σφᾰ́γνοιν toîn sphắgnoin |
τῶν σφᾰ́γνων tôn sphắgnōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ σφᾰ́γνῳ tōî sphắgnōi |
τοῖν σφᾰ́γνοιν toîn sphắgnoin |
τοῖς σφᾰ́γνοις toîs sphắgnois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν σφᾰ́γνον tòn sphắgnon |
τὼ σφᾰ́γνω tṑ sphắgnō |
τοὺς σφᾰ́γνους toùs sphắgnous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σφᾰ́γνε sphắgne |
σφᾰ́γνω sphắgnō |
σφᾰ́γνοι sphắgnoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Translingual: Sphagnum
Further reading
- “σφάγνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σφάγνος 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