ἀμνός
See also: αμνός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʷnós. Cognates include Latin agnus, Old Church Slavonic агнѧ (agnę), and Old English ēanian (English yean).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /am.nós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /amˈnos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /amˈnos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /amˈnos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /amˈnos/
Noun
ἀμνός • (amnós) m (genitive ἀμνοῦ); second declension
- lamb
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ ἀμνός; τοῦ ἀμνοῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ἀμνός ho amnós | τὼ ἀμνώ tṑ amnṓ | οἱ ἀμνοί hoi amnoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ἀμνοῦ toû amnoû | τοῖν ἀμνοῖν toîn amnoîn | τῶν ἀμνῶν tôn amnôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ἀμνῷ tôi amnôi | τοῖν ἀμνοῖν toîn amnoîn | τοῖς ἀμνοῖς toîs amnoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ἀμνόν tòn amnón | τὼ ἀμνώ tṑ amnṓ | τοὺς ἀμνούς toùs amnoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἀμνέ amné | ἀμνώ amnṓ | ἀμνοί amnoí | ||||||||||
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When used as inflected forms, the usual forms are often from ἀρήν (arḗn).
Synonyms
- ὄϊς (óïs)
Derived terms
- ἀμνίον (amníon) (diminutive)
Related terms
- ἀμνή (amnḗ)
Descendants
- Greek: αμνός (amnós)
Further reading
- ἀμνός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀμνός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀμνός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀμνός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
- G286 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979