φάσκον

φάσκον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• φάσκος (pháskos)

Etymology

There are several hypotheses:

• from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- (“tip”) and related to Latin fastigium (“peak, top”) and Proto-Germanic *burstiz (“bristle”)
• related to φάρσος (phársos, “piece, portion”)
• related to φορκόν (phorkón)
• from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedh-sko (“bundle, heap”) and related to Albanian bashkë (“together”), Latin fascis (“bundle”) and Middle Irish basc (“necklet”)
• from a Pre-Greek root common to σφάγνος (sphágnos, “Greek sage”) and σφάκος (sphákos, “apple sage”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰás.kon/ → /ˈɸas.kon/ → /ˈfas.kon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰás.kon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰas.kon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸas.kon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfas.kon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfas.kon/

Noun

φάσκον • (pháskon) n (genitive φάσκου); second declension

1. A kind of moss drooping from oaks

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ φᾰ́σκον; τοῦ φᾰ́σκου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ φᾰ́σκον tò pháskon	τὼ φᾰ́σκω tṑ pháskō	τᾰ̀ φᾰ́σκᾰ tà pháska
Genitive	τοῦ φᾰ́σκου toû pháskou	τοῖν φᾰ́σκοιν toîn pháskoin	τῶν φᾰ́σκων tôn pháskōn
Dative	τῷ φᾰ́σκῳ tôi pháskōi	τοῖν φᾰ́σκοιν toîn pháskoin	τοῖς φᾰ́σκοις toîs pháskois
Accusative	τὸ φᾰ́σκον tò pháskon	τὼ φᾰ́σκω tṑ pháskō	τᾰ̀ φᾰ́σκᾰ tà pháska
Vocative	φᾰ́σκον pháskon	φᾰ́σκω pháskō	φᾰ́σκᾰ pháska
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• φάσκον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• φάσκον 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