ἴονθος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
May belong to a word for "hair", which appears in Middle Irish find (“hair”), Dutch wenkbrauw (“eyebrow”), Old Prussian wanso (“first beard”) and Proto-Slavic *ǫsъ (“moustache”). The Greek word would have to represent a reduplicated formation *ϝί-ϝονθος (*wí-wonthos). All these words have been interpreted as verbal nouns from Proto-Indo-European *wendʰ- (“hair, wool, beard”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /í.on.tʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈi.on.tʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈi.on.θos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈi.on.θos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.on.θos/
Noun
ἴονθος • (íonthos) m (genitive ἰόνθου); second declension
- root of a hair, downy hair
- eruption on the face, which accompanies the first growth of the beard
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ ἴονθος; τοῦ ἰόνθου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ἴονθος ho íonthos | τὼ ἰόνθω tṑ iónthō | οἱ ἴονθοι hoi íonthoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ἰόνθου toû iónthou | τοῖν ἰόνθοιν toîn iónthoin | τῶν ἰόνθων tôn iónthōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ἰόνθῳ tôi iónthōi | τοῖν ἰόνθοιν toîn iónthoin | τοῖς ἰόνθοις toîs iónthois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ἴονθον tòn íonthon | τὼ ἰόνθω tṑ iónthō | τοὺς ἰόνθους toùs iónthous | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἴονθε íonthe | ἰόνθω iónthō | ἴονθοι íonthoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἰονθάς (ionthás)
- ἰονθώδης (ionthṓdēs)
Further reading
- ἴονθος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἴονθος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἴονθος 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