ἄγκιστρον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἄγκος (ánkos, “bend”) + -τρον (-tron).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /áŋ.kis.tron/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈaŋ.kis.tron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈaɲ.ɟis.tron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈaɲ.ɟis.tron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈaɲ.ɟis.tron/
Noun
ᾰ̓́γκῐστρον • (ánkistron) n (genitive ᾰ̓γκῐ́στρου); second declension
- fishhook
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.369
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.70
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 616C
- 200 CE – 400 CE, Philumenus, On Poisonous Animals and Their Remedies 2.6
- 400 CE – 500 CE, Caelius Aurelianus, Chronic Diseases 5.1
- 155 CE – 235 CE, Cassius Dio, Collected Works 60.35
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ ᾰ̓́γκῐστρον; τοῦ ᾰ̓γκῐ́στρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ᾰ̓́γκῐστρον tò ánkistron | τὼ ᾰ̓γκῐ́στρω tṑ ankístrō | τᾰ̀ ᾰ̓́γκῐστρᾰ tà ánkistra | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ᾰ̓γκῐ́στρου toû ankístrou | τοῖν ᾰ̓γκῐ́στροιν toîn ankístroin | τῶν ᾰ̓γκῐ́στρων tôn ankístrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ᾰ̓γκῐ́στρῳ tôi ankístrōi | τοῖν ᾰ̓γκῐ́στροιν toîn ankístroin | τοῖς ᾰ̓γκῐ́στροις toîs ankístrois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ᾰ̓́γκῐστρον tò ánkistron | τὼ ᾰ̓γκῐ́στρω tṑ ankístrō | τᾰ̀ ᾰ̓́γκῐστρᾰ tà ánkistra | ||||||||||
Vocative | ᾰ̓́γκῐστρον ánkistron | ᾰ̓γκῐ́στρω ankístrō | ᾰ̓́γκῐστρᾰ ánkistra | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: άγκιστρο (ágkistro)
Further reading
- “ἄγκιστρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄγκιστρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἄγκιστρον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἄγκιστρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄγκιστρον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἄγκιστρον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- G44 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- barb idem, page 62.
- fish-hook idem, page 323.
- hook idem, page 405.