ἴτον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ϝίτον (wíton), οἰτόν (oitón), οὐιτόν (ouitón)
Etymology
Furnée connects the word with ὕδνον (húdnon, “truffle”), which has variants too. Furnée is mistaken to assume a prothetic "ὀ-", since "ὀ-" and "οὐ-" just indicate "ϝ-". So we have *wit- and *wid-n-, with a suffix beginning with "n-" and voicing before the nasal, which is typical of Pre-Greek according to Beekes.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /í.ton/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈi.ton/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈi.ton/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈi.ton/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.ton/
Noun
ἴτον • (íton) n (genitive ἴτου); second declension
- Thracian name for a kind of mushroom
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ ῐ̓́τον; τοῦ ῐ̓́του (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ῐ̓́τον tò íton | τὼ ῐ̓́τω tṑ ítō | τᾰ̀ ῐ̓́τᾰ tà íta | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ῐ̓́του toû ítou | τοῖν ῐ̓́τοιν toîn ítoin | τῶν ῐ̓́των tôn ítōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ῐ̓́τῳ tôi ítōi | τοῖν ῐ̓́τοιν toîn ítoin | τοῖς ῐ̓́τοις toîs ítois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ῐ̓́τον tò íton | τὼ ῐ̓́τω tṑ ítō | τᾰ̀ ῐ̓́τᾰ tà íta | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῐ̓́τον íton | ῐ̓́τω ítō | ῐ̓́τᾰ íta | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- ἴτον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἴτον 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