ἱκανός
See also: ικανός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἱκνέομαι (hiknéomai, “to be appropriate”) + -νος (-nos).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hi.ka.nós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)i.kaˈnos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /i.kaˈnos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /i.kaˈnos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /i.kaˈnos/
Adjective
ῐ̔κᾰνός • (hikanós) m (feminine ῐ̔κᾰνή, neuter ῐ̔κᾰνόν); first/second declension
- becoming, befitting, sufficient
- (of persons) competent, strong or skillful enough
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.45
- 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Against the Stepmother for Poisoning 15
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.9
- 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Funeral Oration 42
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.4.12
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Constitution of Sparta 8.4
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 277A
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 875A
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 25.3.6
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.4
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.6.15
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 467D
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, On Horsemanship 2.1
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 322C
- 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 377
- 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Panathenaicus 132
- 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Helen 38
- 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Lysis 204A
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 327C
- 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 20.3
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Ruth 1.21
- (of things) adequate, enough, considerable
- 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 554
- 425 BCE, Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1047
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.77
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hiero 4.9
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 371E
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 322B
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.121
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.2
- 415 BCE, Euripides, The Trojan Women 996
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 373D
- 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, First Tetralogy 2.2
- 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, First Tetralogy 1.6
- 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 354
- 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Simon 10
- 4th century BC, Isaeus, Menecles 7
- satisfactory
- 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 179B
- 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Hippias Minor 369C
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 32.3.13
- 3rd century AD, Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 4.50
- New Testament, The Gospel of Mark 15:15
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 11.25.1
- 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Library 11.40
- (of persons) competent, strong or skillful enough
Inflection
First and second declension of ῐ̔κᾰνός; ῐ̔κᾰνή; ῐ̔κᾰνόν (Attic)
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
Nominative | ῐ̔κᾰνός hikanós | ῐ̔κᾰνή hikanḗ | ῐ̔κᾰνόν hikanón | ῐ̔κᾰνώ hikanṓ | ῐ̔κᾰνᾱ́ hikanā́ | ῐ̔κᾰνώ hikanṓ | ῐ̔κᾰνοί hikanoí | ῐ̔κᾰναί hikanaí | ῐ̔κᾰνᾰ́ hikaná | |||||
Genitive | ῐ̔κᾰνοῦ hikanoû | ῐ̔κᾰνῆς hikanês | ῐ̔κᾰνοῦ hikanoû | ῐ̔κᾰνοῖν hikanoîn | ῐ̔κᾰναῖν hikanaîn | ῐ̔κᾰνοῖν hikanoîn | ῐ̔κᾰνῶν hikanôn | ῐ̔κᾰνῶν hikanôn | ῐ̔κᾰνῶν hikanôn | |||||
Dative | ῐ̔κᾰνῷ hikanôi | ῐ̔κᾰνῇ hikanêi | ῐ̔κᾰνῷ hikanôi | ῐ̔κᾰνοῖν hikanoîn | ῐ̔κᾰναῖν hikanaîn | ῐ̔κᾰνοῖν hikanoîn | ῐ̔κᾰνοῖς hikanoîs | ῐ̔κᾰναῖς hikanaîs | ῐ̔κᾰνοῖς hikanoîs | |||||
Accusative | ῐ̔κᾰνόν hikanón | ῐ̔κᾰνήν hikanḗn | ῐ̔κᾰνόν hikanón | ῐ̔κᾰνώ hikanṓ | ῐ̔κᾰνᾱ́ hikanā́ | ῐ̔κᾰνώ hikanṓ | ῐ̔κᾰνούς hikanoús | ῐ̔κᾰνᾱ́ς hikanā́s | ῐ̔κᾰνᾰ́ hikaná | |||||
Vocative | ῐ̔κᾰνέ hikané | ῐ̔κᾰνή hikanḗ | ῐ̔κᾰνόν hikanón | ῐ̔κᾰνώ hikanṓ | ῐ̔κᾰνᾱ́ hikanā́ | ῐ̔κᾰνώ hikanṓ | ῐ̔κᾰνοί hikanoí | ῐ̔κᾰναί hikanaí | ῐ̔κᾰνᾰ́ hikaná | |||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
ῐ̔κᾰνῶς hikanôs | ῐ̔κᾰνώτερος hikanṓteros | ῐ̔κᾰνώτᾰτος hikanṓtatos | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἱκανόω (hikanóō)
- ῐ̔κᾰνῶς (hikanôs)
Descendants
- Coptic: ϩⲓⲕⲁⲛⲟⲥ (hikanos)
References
- “ἱκανός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἱκανός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἱκανός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G2425 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.
- able idem, page 2.
- adequate idem, page 11.
- capable idem, page 111.
- competent idem, page 151.
- enough idem, page 276.
- equal idem, page 280.
- fit idem, page 323.
- qualified idem, page 663.
- sufficient idem, page 835.