ὀστέον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ὀστοῦν (ostoûn) – Attic
- ὀστεῦν (osteûn) – Poetic
- ὄστιον (óstion) – Aeolic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁. Cognates include Latin os, Sanskrit अस्थि (ásthi), Old Armenian ոսկր (oskr), and Albanian asht.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /os.té.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /osˈte.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /osˈte.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /osˈte.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /osˈte.on/
Noun
ὀστέον • (ostéon) n (genitive ὀστέου); second declension
- (anatomy) bone
- (figuratively) bones of the earth = rock
- stone of fruit
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ ὀστέον; τοῦ ὀστέου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ὀστέον tò ostéon | τὼ ὀστέω tṑ ostéō | τᾰ̀ ὀστέᾰ tà ostéa | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ὀστέου toû ostéou | τοῖν ὀστέοιν toîn ostéoin | τῶν ὀστέων tôn ostéōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ὀστέῳ tôi ostéōi | τοῖν ὀστέοιν toîn ostéoin | τοῖς ὀστέοις toîs ostéois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ὀστέον tò ostéon | τὼ ὀστέω tṑ ostéō | τᾰ̀ ὀστέᾰ tà ostéa | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὀστέον ostéon | ὀστέω ostéō | ὀστέᾰ ostéa | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ὁλόστεον (holósteon)
- ὀστᾰ́ρῐον (ostárion)
- ὀστέϊνος (ostéïnos)
Descendants
- Greek: οστό (ostó)
Further reading
- “ὀστέον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὀστέον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὀστέον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὀστέον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ὀστέον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ὀστέον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G4356 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- 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