χαῦνος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Because of its basic meaning "loose, with holes, porous", is quite possible for this adjective to derive from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰan- / *gʰan- (“to yawn, to gape”), like χάος (kháos, “abyss, chasm”), χαίνω (khaínō) and χάσκω (kháskō, “to gape, yawn”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰâu̯.nos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkʰaw.nos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈxa.βnos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈxa.vnos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈxa.vnos/
Adjective
χαῦνος • (khaûnos) m (feminine χαύνη, neuter χαῦνον); first/second declension
- (of tissues) porous, spongy
- Synonyms: πολῠ́τρητος (polútrētos), σομφός (somphós)
- (of timber) loose-grained
- (figurative) empty, frivolous
Inflection
First and second declension of χαῦνος; χαύνη; χαῦνον (Attic)
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
Nominative | χαῦνος khaûnos | χαύνη khaúnē | χαῦνον khaûnon | χαύνω khaúnō | χαύνᾱ khaúnā | χαύνω khaúnō | χαῦνοι khaûnoi | χαῦναι khaûnai | χαῦνᾰ khaûna | |||||
Genitive | χαύνου khaúnou | χαύνης khaúnēs | χαύνου khaúnou | χαύνοιν khaúnoin | χαύναιν khaúnain | χαύνοιν khaúnoin | χαύνων khaúnōn | χαύνων khaúnōn | χαύνων khaúnōn | |||||
Dative | χαύνῳ khaúnōi | χαύνῃ khaúnēi | χαύνῳ khaúnōi | χαύνοιν khaúnoin | χαύναιν khaúnain | χαύνοιν khaúnoin | χαύνοις khaúnois | χαύναις khaúnais | χαύνοις khaúnois | |||||
Accusative | χαῦνον khaûnon | χαύνην khaúnēn | χαῦνον khaûnon | χαύνω khaúnō | χαύνᾱ khaúnā | χαύνω khaúnō | χαύνους khaúnous | χαύνᾱς khaúnās | χαῦνᾰ khaûna | |||||
Vocative | χαῦνε khaûne | χαύνη khaúnē | χαῦνον khaûnon | χαύνω khaúnō | χαύνᾱ khaúnā | χαύνω khaúnō | χαῦνοι khaûnoi | χαῦναι khaûnai | χαῦνᾰ khaûna | |||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
χαύνως khaúnōs | χαυνότερος khaunóteros | χαυνότᾰτος khaunótatos | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- χαῦνᾰξ (khaûnax)
- χαυνόγειον (khaunógeion)
- χαυνολόγος (khaunológos)
- χαυνοπολῑ́της (khaunopolī́tēs)
- χαυνόπρωκτος (khaunóprōktos)
- χαυνόσομφος (khaunósomphos)
- χαυνότης (khaunótēs)
- χαυνόφρων (khaunóphrōn)
- χαυνόω (khaunóō)
- χαύνωμᾰ (khaúnōma)
- χαύνωσῐς (khaúnōsis)
- χαυνωτῐκός (khaunōtikós)
Descendants
- → Translingual: Chauna
Further reading
- χαῦνος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- χαῦνος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- χαῦνος 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