ζιγνίς
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- δειμνύς (deimnús), διγνύς (dignús), ζίγνης (zígnēs), ζιγνύς (zignús)
Etymology
Unknown. According to Beekes, the alternation δ/ζ could lead to a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /zi.ɡnís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ziˈɡnis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ziˈɣnis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ziˈɣnis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ziˈɣnis/
Noun
ζῐγνῐ́ς • (zignís) f (genitive ζῐγνῐ́δος); third declension
- kind of lizard
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ ζῐγνῐ́ς; τῆς ζῐγνῐ́δος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ζῐγνῐ́ς hē zignís | τὼ ζῐγνῐ́δε tṑ zigníde | αἱ ζῐγνῐ́δες hai zignídes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ζῐγνῐ́δος tês zignídos | τοῖν ζῐγνῐ́δοιν toîn zignídoin | τῶν ζῐγνῐ́δων tôn zignídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ζῐγνῐ́δῐ têi zignídi | τοῖν ζῐγνῐ́δοιν toîn zignídoin | ταῖς ζῐγνῐ́σῐ / ζῐγνῐ́σῐν taîs zignísi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ζῐγνῐ́δᾰ tḕn zignída | τὼ ζῐγνῐ́δε tṑ zigníde | τᾱ̀ς ζῐγνῐ́δᾰς tā̀s zignídas | ||||||||||
Vocative | ζῐγνῐ́ς zignís | ζῐγνῐ́δε zigníde | ζῐγνῐ́δες zignídes | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “ζιγνίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ζιγνίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ζιγνίς”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 501