ἔτνος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown. It has been connected with Scottish Gaelic eitean (“kernel, core”) and Old Armenian ունդ (und, “pulse”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /é.tnos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈe.tnos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈe.tnos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈe.tnos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈe.tnos/
Noun
ἔτνος • (étnos) n (genitive ἔτνους); third declension
- thick soup made with peas or beans
Inflection
Third declension of τὸ ἔτνος; τοῦ ἔτνους (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ἔτνος tò étnos | τὼ ἔτνει tṑ étnei | τᾰ̀ ἔτνη tà étnē | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ἔτνους toû étnous | τοῖν ἐτνοῖν toîn etnoîn | τῶν ἐτνῶν tôn etnôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ἔτνει tôi étnei | τοῖν ἐτνοῖν toîn etnoîn | τοῖς ἔτνεσῐ / ἔτνεσῐν toîs étnesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ἔτνος tò étnos | τὼ ἔτνει tṑ étnei | τᾰ̀ ἔτνη tà étnē | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἔτνος étnos | ἔτνει étnei | ἔτνη étnē | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἐτνηρός (etnērós)
- ἐτνήρυσις (etnḗrusis)
- ἐτνίτης (etnítēs)
- ἐτνοδόνος (etnodónos)
Further reading
- “ἔτνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἔτνος 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