κοντάκιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κόνταξ (kóntax, “rod, stick”, referring to the pole around which the scroll [with the hymn on it] was wound) + -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kon.tá.ki.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /konˈta.ki.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /konˈta.ci.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /konˈta.ci.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /konˈda.ci.on/
Noun
κοντᾰ́κῐον • (kontákion) n (genitive κοντᾰκῐ́ου); second declension
- (Byzantine) Kontakion, a type of Byzantine hymn
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ κοντᾰ́κῐον; τοῦ κοντᾰκῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ κοντᾰ́κῐον tò kontákion | τὼ κοντᾰκῐ́ω tṑ kontakíō | τᾰ̀ κοντᾰ́κῐᾰ tà kontákia | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κοντᾰκῐ́ου toû kontakíou | τοῖν κοντᾰκῐ́οιν toîn kontakíoin | τῶν κοντᾰκῐ́ων tôn kontakíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κοντᾰκῐ́ῳ tôi kontakíōi | τοῖν κοντᾰκῐ́οιν toîn kontakíoin | τοῖς κοντᾰκῐ́οις toîs kontakíois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ κοντᾰ́κῐον tò kontákion | τὼ κοντᾰκῐ́ω tṑ kontakíō | τᾰ̀ κοντᾰ́κῐᾰ tà kontákia | ||||||||||
Vocative | κοντᾰ́κῐον kontákion | κοντᾰκῐ́ω kontakíō | κοντᾰ́κῐᾰ kontákia | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κοντακάριον (kontakárion)
Descendants
- Greek: κοντάκι (kontáki)
- → Arabic: قِنْدَاق (qindāq)
- → Old Armenian: կոնդակ (kondak)
- → Bulgarian: конда́к (kondák)
- → Georgian: კონდაკი (ḳondaḳi)
- → Old East Slavic: коньдакъ (konĭdakŭ), кондакъ (kondakŭ)
- Russian: конда́к (kondák)
- → Ottoman Turkish: قونداق (kundak) (see there for further descendants)
- → Romanian: condac
- → Sardinian: condaghe
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ко̀ндак
- Latin: kòndak
- → Classical Syriac: ܩܘܢܕܩܐ (qōndaqā)
Further reading
- “κοντάκιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κοντάκιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κοντάκιον in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- κοντάκιον - Kriaras, Emmanuel (vol.1 1969-) Επιτομή του Λεξικού της Μεσαιωνικής Ελληνικής Δημώδους Γραμματείας [Concise Dictionary of Medieval Vulgar Greek Literature (1100–1669) Vols. I–XIV] (in Greek) Online edition (22 vols. printed edition)