ὀνόπορδον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὄνος (ónos, “donkey”) + the root of πέρδομαι (pérdomai, “to fart”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /o.nó.por.don/ → /oˈno.por.ðon/ → /oˈno.por.ðon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /o.nó.por.don/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /oˈno.por.don/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /oˈno.por.ðon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /oˈno.por.ðon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /oˈno.por.ðon/

Noun

ὀνόπορδον • (onópordon) n (genitive ὀνοπόρδου); second declension

1. cotton thistle (Onopordum acanthium)

   Synonym: ἀκάνθιον (akánthion)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ὀνόπορδον; τοῦ ὀνοπόρδου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ὀνόπορδον tò onópordon	τὼ ὀνοπόρδω tṑ onopórdō	τᾰ̀ ὀνόπορδᾰ tà onóporda
Genitive	τοῦ ὀνοπόρδου toû onopórdou	τοῖν ὀνοπόρδοιν toîn onopórdoin	τῶν ὀνοπόρδων tôn onopórdōn
Dative	τῷ ὀνοπόρδῳ tôi onopórdōi	τοῖν ὀνοπόρδοιν toîn onopórdoin	τοῖς ὀνοπόρδοις toîs onopórdois
Accusative	τὸ ὀνόπορδον tò onópordon	τὼ ὀνοπόρδω tṑ onopórdō	τᾰ̀ ὀνόπορδᾰ tà onóporda
Vocative	ὀνόπορδον onópordon	ὀνοπόρδω onopórdō	ὀνόπορδᾰ onóporda
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Onopordum

Further reading

• “ὀνόπορδον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὀνόπορδον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette