ἴτον
Ancient Greek
Etymology 1
Furnée connects the word with ὕδνον (húdnon, “truffle”), which has variants too. Furnée is mistaken to assume a prothetic "ὀ-", since "ὀ-" and "οὐ-" just indicate "ϝ-". So we have *wit- and *wid-n-, with a suffix beginning with "n-" and voicing before the nasal, which is typical of Pre-Greek according to Beekes.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /í.ton/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈi.ton/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈi.ton/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈi.ton/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.ton/
Noun
ἴτον • (íton) n (genitive ἴτου); second declension
- Thracian name for a kind of mushroom
- Alternative forms: ϝίτον (wíton), οἰτόν (oitón), οὐιτόν (ouitón)
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ῐ̓́τον tò ĭ́ton |
τὼ ῐ̓́τω tṑ ĭ́tō |
τᾰ̀ ῐ̓́τᾰ tằ ĭ́tă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ῐ̓́του toû ĭ́tou |
τοῖν ῐ̓́τοιν toîn ĭ́toin |
τῶν ῐ̓́των tôn ĭ́tōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ῐ̓́τῳ tōî ĭ́tōi |
τοῖν ῐ̓́τοιν toîn ĭ́toin |
τοῖς ῐ̓́τοις toîs ĭ́tois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ῐ̓́τον tò ĭ́ton |
τὼ ῐ̓́τω tṑ ĭ́tō |
τᾰ̀ ῐ̓́τᾰ tằ ĭ́tă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ῐ̓́τον ĭ́ton |
ῐ̓́τω ĭ́tō |
ῐ̓́τᾰ ĭ́tă | ||||||||||
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Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /í.ton/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈi.ton/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈi.ton/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈi.ton/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.ton/
Verb
ἴτον • (íton)
- inflection of εἶμῐ (eîmĭ, “to go”):
- second/third-person dual present active indicative
- second-person dual present active imperative
Further reading
- “ἴτον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἴτον 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