ψήν
See also: ψῆν
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek. The connection with ψάω (psáō, “to rub, grate”) is hardly possible. The suffix -ήν can be found also in κηφήν (kēphḗn, “drone”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /psɛ̌ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pse̝n/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /psin/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /psin/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /psin/
Noun
ψήν • (psḗn) m (genitive ψηνός); third declension
- gall wasp (insect of the family Cynipidae)
Declension
Third declension of ὁ ψήν; τοῦ ψηνός (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ψήν ho psḗn | τὼ ψῆνε tṑ psêne | οἱ ψῆνες hoi psênes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ψηνός toû psēnós | τοῖν ψηνοῖν toîn psēnoîn | τῶν ψηνῶν tôn psēnôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ψηνῐ́ tôi psēní | τοῖν ψηνοῖν toîn psēnoîn | τοῖς ψησῐ́ / ψησῐ́ν toîs psēsí(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ψῆνᾰ tòn psêna | τὼ ψῆνε tṑ psêne | τοὺς ψῆνᾰς toùs psênas | ||||||||||
Vocative | ψήν psḗn | ψῆνε psêne | ψῆνες psênes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ψηνίζω (psēnízō)
Descendants
- → Translingual: Psen
Further reading
- “ψήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ψήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ψήν 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