ὤν
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *ehonts, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁sónts, present participle of *h₁es- (“to be”). Cognate with Latin sōns (“guilty”), Sanskrit सत् (sát, “being, essence, reality”), Albanian gjë (“thing”), English sooth (“true, a fact”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɔ̌ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /on/
Participle
ὤν • (ṓn)
Inflection
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
| Nominative | ὤν ṓn |
οὖσᾰ oûsă |
ὄν ón |
ὄντε ónte |
οὔσᾱ oúsā |
ὄντε ónte |
ὄντες óntes |
οὖσαι oûsai |
ὄντᾰ óntă | |||||
| Genitive | ὄντος óntos |
οὔσης oúsēs |
ὄντος óntos |
ὄντοιν óntoin |
οὔσαιν oúsain |
ὄντοιν óntoin |
ὄντων óntōn |
οὐσῶν ousôn |
ὄντων óntōn | |||||
| Dative | ὄντῐ óntĭ |
οὔσῃ oúsēi |
ὄντῐ óntĭ |
ὄντοιν óntoin |
οὔσαιν oúsain |
ὄντοιν óntoin |
οὖσῐ / οὖσῐν oûsĭ(n) |
οὔσαις oúsais |
οὖσῐ / οὖσῐν oûsĭ(n) | |||||
| Accusative | ὄντᾰ óntă |
οὖσᾰν oûsăn |
ὄν ón |
ὄντε ónte |
οὔσᾱ oúsā |
ὄντε ónte |
ὄντᾰς óntăs |
οὔσᾱς oúsās |
ὄντᾰ óntă | |||||
| Vocative | ὤν ṓn |
οὖσᾰ oûsă |
ὄν ón |
ὄντε ónte |
οὔσᾱ oúsā |
ὄντε ónte |
ὄντες óntes |
οὖσαι oûsai |
ὄντᾰ óntă | |||||
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Derived terms
References
- ὤν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G5607 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920) “Part II: Inflection”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 305: table of declined forms