ξηνός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Has been connected with ἐπίξηνον (epíxēnon, “chopping-block”), but further details are obscure.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ksɛː.nós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kse̝ˈnos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ksiˈnos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ksiˈnos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ksiˈnos/
Noun
ξηνός • (xēnós) m (genitive ξηνοῦ); second declension
- (botany) squared trunk of a tree, block
- Synonym: κορμός (kormós)
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ ξηνός; τοῦ ξηνοῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ξηνός ho xēnós | τὼ ξηνώ tṑ xēnṓ | οἱ ξηνοί hoi xēnoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ξηνοῦ toû xēnoû | τοῖν ξηνοῖν toîn xēnoîn | τῶν ξηνῶν tôn xēnôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ξηνῷ tôi xēnôi | τοῖν ξηνοῖν toîn xēnoîn | τοῖς ξηνοῖς toîs xēnoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ξηνόν tòn xēnón | τὼ ξηνώ tṑ xēnṓ | τοὺς ξηνούς toùs xēnoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | ξηνέ xēné | ξηνώ xēnṓ | ξηνοί xēnoí | ||||||||||
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References
- “ξηνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- 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