γάγγραινα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• γάγραινα (gágraina)

Etymology

In antiquity it was compared with γράω (gráō, “to devour”) but this is incorrect. It is most probably a Pre-Greek word.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɡáŋ.ɡrai̯.na/ → /ˈɣaŋ.ɡrɛ.na/ → /ˈɣaŋ.ɡre.na/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɡáŋ.ɡrai̯.na/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaŋ.ɡrɛ.na/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɣaŋ.ɡrɛ.na/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈɣaŋ.ɡre.na/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈɣaŋ.ɡre.na/

Noun

γάγγραινᾰ • (gángraina) f (genitive γαγγραίνης); first declension

1. (pathology) gangrene

Inflection

First declension of ἡ γάγγραινᾰ; τῆς γαγγραίνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ γάγγραινᾰ hē gángraina	τὼ γαγγραίνᾱ tṑ gangraínā	αἱ γάγγραιναι hai gángrainai
Genitive	τῆς γαγγραίνης tês gangraínēs	τοῖν γαγγραίναιν toîn gangraínain	τῶν γαγγραινῶν tôn gangrainôn
Dative	τῇ γαγγραίνῃ têi gangraínēi	τοῖν γαγγραίναιν toîn gangraínain	ταῖς γαγγραίναις taîs gangraínais
Accusative	τὴν γάγγραινᾰν tḕn gángrainan	τὼ γαγγραίνᾱ tṑ gangraínā	τᾱ̀ς γαγγραίνᾱς tā̀s gangraínās
Vocative	γάγγραινᾰ gángraina	γαγγραίνᾱ gangraínā	γάγγραιναι gángrainai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• γαγγραινικός (gangrainikós)
• γαγγραινόομαι (gangrainóomai)
• γαγγραινώδης (gangrainṓdēs)
• γαγγραίνωμα (gangraínōma)
• γαγγραίνωσις (gangraínōsis)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: gangraena
  • French: gangrène
    • → English: gangrene
    • → Romanian: gangrenă, cangrenă
    • → Turkish: kangren
  • Italian: cancrena
  • Russian: гангрена (gangrena)
  • Spanish: gangrena

Further reading

• “γάγγραινα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• γάγγραινα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• γάγγραινα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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

Greek

Noun

γάγγραινα • (gángraina) f (uncountable)

1. gangrene

Declension

  γάγγραινα

case     \     number	singular
nominative	γάγγραινα •
genitive	γάγγραινας •
accusative	γάγγραινα •
vocative	γάγγραινα •

Further reading

• γάγγραινα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el