πάχνη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-, like πήγνυμι (pḗgnumi, “I fasten”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pá.kʰnɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpa.kʰne̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpa.xni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpa.xni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpa.xni/
Noun
πάχνη • (pákhnē) f (genitive πάχνης); first declension
- hoarfrost, rime
- Synonym: στίβη (stíbē)
Inflection
First declension of ἡ πάχνη; τῆς πάχνης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ πάχνη hē pákhnē | τὼ πάχνᾱ tṑ pákhnā | αἱ πάχναι hai pákhnai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς πάχνης tês pákhnēs | τοῖν πάχναιν toîn pákhnain | τῶν παχνῶν tôn pakhnôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ πάχνῃ têi pákhnēi | τοῖν πάχναιν toîn pákhnain | ταῖς πάχναις taîs pákhnais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν πάχνην tḕn pákhnēn | τὼ πάχνᾱ tṑ pákhnā | τᾱ̀ς πάχνᾱς tā̀s pákhnās | ||||||||||
Vocative | πάχνη pákhnē | πάχνᾱ pákhnā | πάχναι pákhnai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- παχνήεις (pakhnḗeis)
- παχνόω (pakhnóō)
- παχνώδης (pakhnṓdēs)
Descendants
- Greek: πάχνη (páchni)
References
- “πάχνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πάχνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πάχνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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
Greek
Noun
πάχνη • (páchni) f (uncountable)
- rime, hoarfrost
Declension
πάχνη
case \\ number | singular |
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nominative | πάχνη • |
genitive | πάχνης • |
accusative | πάχνη • |
vocative | πάχνη • |
Synonyms
- δροσόπαγος m (drosópagos)
- πάγος m (págos)
Further reading
- πάχνη on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el