ὑάκινθος

See also: υάκινθος and Ὑάκινθος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Of Pre-Greek or other Mediterranean substrate origin and possibly related to Latin vaccinium.[1] Note the Pre-Greek suffix -ινθ- (-inth-).[2]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

ῠ̔ᾰ́κινθος • (hŭắkinthos) m (genitive ῠ̔ᾰκίνθου); second declension

  1. The alpine squill (Scilla bifolia)
  2. The larkspur (Consolida ajacis, syn. Delphinium ajacis)
  3. A certain type of blue
  4. Huákinthos, “dark red, purple”, again see Latin vaccinium
  5. A blue precious stone, perhaps aquamarine

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ὑάκινθος; τοῦ ὑακίνθου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ ὑάκινθος
ho huákinthos 		τὼ ὑακίνθω
tṑ huakínthō 		οἱ ὑάκινθοι
hoi huákinthoi
Genitive τοῦ ὑακίνθου
toû huakínthou 		τοῖν ὑακίνθοιν
toîn huakínthoin 		τῶν ὑακίνθων
tôn huakínthōn
Dative τῷ ὑακίνθῳ
tōî huakínthōi 		τοῖν ὑακίνθοιν
toîn huakínthoin 		τοῖς ὑακίνθοις
toîs huakínthois
Accusative τὸν ὑάκινθον
tòn huákinthon 		τὼ ὑακίνθω
tṑ huakínthō 		τοὺς ὑακίνθους
toùs huakínthous
Vocative ὑάκινθε
huákinthe 		ὑακίνθω
huakínthō 		ὑάκινθοι
huákinthoi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

  • Greek: υάκινθος (yákinthos)
  • → Classical Syriac: ܝܩܘܢܕܐ (yāqūndāʾ, yaqqūndāʾ), ܝܘܩܢܛܐ (yūqanṭāʾ, “jacinth”)
  • → Hebrew: יָקִינְתּוֹן (yakintón)
  • → Latin: hyacinthus (see there for further descendants)
  • → Middle Persian: yʾknd (yākand, “ruby”)
  • → Old Armenian: յակինթ (yakintʻ), յակինթոս (yakintʻos), յակունդ (yakund), յակինդ (yakind), յաթինկոս (yatʻinkos) — misspelling
  • → Old Church Slavonic: акинтъ (akintŭ), акунтъ (akuntŭ), ꙗкинфъ (jakinfŭ)
  • → Parthian:
    Manichaean script: 𐫏𐫀𐫐𐫇𐫗𐫅 (yʾkwnd /⁠yākund⁠/)
  • → Sogdian: [script needed] (yγwth /⁠yaγūt⁠/, “ruby”)
    • → Arabic: يَاقُوت (yāqūt) (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ὑάκινθος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1523
  2. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2014) “ὑάκινθος”, in Stefan Norbruis, editor, Pre-Greek: Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 70

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