ἀκόνιτον
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
Derived by the ancients from ᾰ̓κόνῑτος (akónītos, “without dust, without struggle”), therefore "invincible", because of its deadly effect. Semantically, this is hardly possible. Furnée connects it with κονή (konḗ, “murder”) and κῶνος (kônos, “cone”), suggesting a Pre-Greek origin, which is in any case probable.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.kó.niː.ton/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈko.ni.ton/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈko.ni.ton/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈko.ni.ton/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈko.ni.ton/
Noun edit
ᾰ̓κόνῑτον • (akónīton) n (genitive ᾰ̓κονῑ́του); second declension
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ᾰ̓κόνῑτον tò akónīton |
τὼ ᾰ̓κονῑ́τω tṑ akonī́tō |
τᾰ̀ ᾰ̓κόνῑτᾰ tà akónīta | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ᾰ̓κονῑ́του toû akonī́tou |
τοῖν ᾰ̓κονῑ́τοιν toîn akonī́toin |
τῶν ᾰ̓κονῑ́των tôn akonī́tōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ᾰ̓κονῑ́τῳ tôi akonī́tōi |
τοῖν ᾰ̓κονῑ́τοιν toîn akonī́toin |
τοῖς ᾰ̓κονῑ́τοις toîs akonī́tois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ᾰ̓κόνῑτον tò akónīton |
τὼ ᾰ̓κονῑ́τω tṑ akonī́tō |
τᾰ̀ ᾰ̓κόνῑτᾰ tà akónīta | ||||||||||
Vocative | ᾰ̓κόνῑτον akónīton |
ᾰ̓κονῑ́τω akonī́tō |
ᾰ̓κόνῑτᾰ akónīta | ||||||||||
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Further reading edit
- “ἀκόνιτον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀκόνιτον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀκόνιτον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀκόνιτον 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