γίγαρτον
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
Reduplicated formation. It is often connected with grānum (“seed, kernel”) and Old High German kerno (“pit, stone”), which is formally improbable. According to Beekes, the word is rather a Pre-Greek loan.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɡí.ɡar.ton/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈɡi.ɡar.ton/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈʝi.ɣar.ton/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈʝi.ɣar.ton/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈʝi.ɣar.ton/
Noun edit
γῐ́γᾰρτον • (gígarton) n (genitive γῐγᾰ́ρτου); second declension
- grapestone, seed of the grape
- pit of the olive
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ γῐ́γᾰρτον tò gígarton |
τὼ γῐγᾰ́ρτω tṑ gigártō |
τᾰ̀ γῐ́γᾰρτᾰ tà gígarta | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ γῐγᾰ́ρτου toû gigártou |
τοῖν γῐγᾰ́ρτοιν toîn gigártoin |
τῶν γῐγᾰ́ρτων tôn gigártōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ γῐγᾰ́ρτῳ tôi gigártōi |
τοῖν γῐγᾰ́ρτοιν toîn gigártoin |
τοῖς γῐγᾰ́ρτοις toîs gigártois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ γῐ́γᾰρτον tò gígarton |
τὼ γῐγᾰ́ρτω tṑ gigártō |
τᾰ̀ γῐ́γᾰρτᾰ tà gígarta | ||||||||||
Vocative | γῐ́γᾰρτον gígarton |
γῐγᾰ́ρτω gigártō |
γῐ́γᾰρτᾰ gígarta | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
- γιγαρτικός (gigartikós)
- γιγαρτίς (gigartís)
- γιγαρτώδης (gigartṓdēs)
- γιγαρτώνιον (gigartṓnion)
Further reading edit
- “γίγαρτον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- γίγαρτον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- γίγαρτον 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
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the second declension