δεκανός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin decānus.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /de.kaː.nós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /de.kaˈnos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ðe.kaˈnos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ðe.kaˈnos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ðe.kaˈnos/
Noun
δεκᾱνός • (dekānós) m (genitive δεκᾱνοῦ); second declension
- (at Rome) decanus, decurion
- (in Egypt) police officer
- (astrology, in the plural) decans
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ δεκᾱνός; τοῦ δεκᾱνοῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ δεκᾱνός ho dekānós | τὼ δεκᾱνώ tṑ dekānṓ | οἱ δεκᾱνοί hoi dekānoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ δεκᾱνοῦ toû dekānoû | τοῖν δεκᾱνοῖν toîn dekānoîn | τῶν δεκᾱνῶν tôn dekānôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ δεκᾱνῷ tôi dekānôi | τοῖν δεκᾱνοῖν toîn dekānoîn | τοῖς δεκᾱνοῖς toîs dekānoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν δεκᾱνόν tòn dekānón | τὼ δεκᾱνώ tṑ dekānṓ | τοὺς δεκᾱνούς toùs dekānoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | δεκᾱνέ dekāné | δεκᾱνώ dekānṓ | δεκᾱνοί dekānoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- δεκᾱνῐ́ᾱ (dekāníā)
- δεκᾱνῐκός (dekānikós)
Further reading
- “δεκανός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- δεκανός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- δεκανός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)