ὕπνον

Ancient Greek

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hý.pnon/ → /ˈy.pnon/ → /ˈi.pnon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hý.pnon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)y.pnon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.pnon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.pnon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.pnon/

Noun

ὕπνον • (húpnon) n (genitive ὕπνου); second declension

1. kind of lichen

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ῠ̔́πνον; τοῦ ῠ̔́πνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ῠ̔́πνον tò húpnon	τὼ ῠ̔́πνω tṑ húpnō	τᾰ̀ ῠ̔́πνᾰ tà húpna
Genitive	τοῦ ῠ̔́πνου toû húpnou	τοῖν ῠ̔́πνοιν toîn húpnoin	τῶν ῠ̔́πνων tôn húpnōn
Dative	τῷ ῠ̔́πνῳ tôi húpnōi	τοῖν ῠ̔́πνοιν toîn húpnoin	τοῖς ῠ̔́πνοις toîs húpnois
Accusative	τὸ ῠ̔́πνον tò húpnon	τὼ ῠ̔́πνω tṑ húpnō	τᾰ̀ ῠ̔́πνᾰ tà húpna
Vocative	ῠ̔́πνον húpnon	ῠ̔́πνω húpnō	ῠ̔́πνᾰ húpna
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hý.pnon/ → /ˈy.pnon/ → /ˈi.pnon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hý.pnon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)y.pnon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.pnon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.pnon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.pnon/

Noun

ὕπνον • (húpnon)

1. accusative singular of ὕπνος (húpnos)

Further reading

• “ὕπνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὕπνον 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