ὤκινον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, from the same Pre-Greek root of ἄκινος (ákinos, “wild basil”) and ὤκιμον (ṓkimon, “basil”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɔ̌ː.ki.non/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈo.ki.non/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈo.ci.non/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈo.ci.non/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈo.ci.non/
Noun
ὤκῐνον • (ṓkĭnon) n (genitive ὠκῐ́νου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ὤκῐνον tò ṓkĭnon |
τὼ ὠκῐ́νω tṑ ōkĭ́nō |
τᾰ̀ ὤκῐνᾰ tằ ṓkĭnă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ὠκῐ́νου toû ōkĭ́nou |
τοῖν ὠκῐ́νοιν toîn ōkĭ́noin |
τῶν ὠκῐ́νων tôn ōkĭ́nōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ὠκῐ́νῳ tōî ōkĭ́nōi |
τοῖν ὠκῐ́νοιν toîn ōkĭ́noin |
τοῖς ὠκῐ́νοις toîs ōkĭ́nois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ὤκῐνον tò ṓkĭnon |
τὼ ὠκῐ́νω tṑ ōkĭ́nō |
τᾰ̀ ὤκῐνᾰ tằ ṓkĭnă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ὤκῐνον ṓkĭnon |
ὠκῐ́νω ōkĭ́nō |
ὤκῐνᾰ ṓkĭnă | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: ōcinum
Further reading
- “ὤκινον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὤκινον 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