ὕδνον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- οἶδνον (oîdnon), οἶτνον (oîtnon), ὕτνον (hútnon)
Etymology
The word has hesitantly been connected to ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) as "juicy", to ὕω (húō, “to rain”) as "rain plant" and to ὗς (hûs, “swine”) as "sow-bread". In view of the alternative forms, Beekes argues for a Pre-Greek word and links it with ἴτον (íton, “kind of mushroom”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hý.dnon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)y.dnon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈy.ðnon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈy.ðnon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.ðnon/
Noun
ὕδνον • (húdnon) n (genitive ὕδνου); second declension
- truffle, earthnut
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ ῠ̔́δνον; τοῦ ῠ̔́δνου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ῠ̔́δνον tò húdnon | τὼ ῠ̔́δνω tṑ húdnō | τᾰ̀ ῠ̔́δνᾰ tà húdna | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ῠ̔́δνου toû húdnou | τοῖν ῠ̔́δνοιν toîn húdnoin | τῶν ῠ̔́δνων tôn húdnōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ῠ̔́δνῳ tôi húdnōi | τοῖν ῠ̔́δνοιν toîn húdnoin | τοῖς ῠ̔́δνοις toîs húdnois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ῠ̔́δνον tò húdnon | τὼ ῠ̔́δνω tṑ húdnō | τᾰ̀ ῠ̔́δνᾰ tà húdna | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῠ̔́δνον húdnon | ῠ̔́δνω húdnō | ῠ̔́δνᾰ húdna | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ὑδνόφυλλον (hudnóphullon)
Further reading
- ὕδνον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὕδνον 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