ὁλόστεον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ὅλος (hólos, “entire, whole”) + ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ho.lós.te.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)oˈlos.te.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /oˈlos.te.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /oˈlos.te.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /oˈlos.te.on/
Noun
ὁλόστεον • (holósteon) n (genitive ὁλοστέου); second declension
- a plantain of species Plantago albicans.
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ὁλόστεον tò holósteon |
τὼ ὁλοστέω tṑ holostéō |
τᾰ̀ ὁλόστεᾰ tằ holósteă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ὁλοστέου toû holostéou |
τοῖν ὁλοστέοιν toîn holostéoin |
τῶν ὁλοστέων tôn holostéōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ὁλοστέῳ tōî holostéōi |
τοῖν ὁλοστέοιν toîn holostéoin |
τοῖς ὁλοστέοις toîs holostéois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ὁλόστεον tò holósteon |
τὼ ὁλοστέω tṑ holostéō |
τᾰ̀ ὁλόστεᾰ tằ holósteă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ὁλόστεον holósteon |
ὁλοστέω holostéō |
ὁλόστεᾰ holósteă | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Translingual: Holosteum
Further reading
- “ὁλόστεον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὁλόστεον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette