δίκταμνον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, of Pre-Greek origin, or from Δίκτη (Díktē) (the name of a mountain of Crete).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /dík.tam.non/ → /ˈðik.tam.non/ → /ˈðik.tam.non/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /dík.tam.non/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈdik.tam.non/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈðik.tam.non/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈðik.tam.non/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈðik.tam.non/

Noun

δῐ́κτᾰμνον • (díktamnon) n (genitive δῐκτᾰ́μνου); second declension

1. dittany (Origanum dictamnus)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ δῐ́κτᾰμνον; τοῦ δῐκτᾰ́μνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ δῐ́κτᾰμνον tò díktamnon	τὼ δῐκτᾰ́μνω tṑ diktámnō	τᾰ̀ δῐ́κτᾰμνᾰ tà díktamna
Genitive	τοῦ δῐκτᾰ́μνου toû diktámnou	τοῖν δῐκτᾰ́μνοιν toîn diktámnoin	τῶν δῐκτᾰ́μνων tôn diktámnōn
Dative	τῷ δῐκτᾰ́μνῳ tôi diktámnōi	τοῖν δῐκτᾰ́μνοιν toîn diktámnoin	τοῖς δῐκτᾰ́μνοις toîs diktámnois
Accusative	τὸ δῐ́κτᾰμνον tò díktamnon	τὼ δῐκτᾰ́μνω tṑ diktámnō	τᾰ̀ δῐ́κτᾰμνᾰ tà díktamna
Vocative	δῐ́κτᾰμνον díktamnon	δῐκτᾰ́μνω diktámnō	δῐ́κτᾰμνᾰ díktamna
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• δῐκτᾰ́μνῐνος (diktámninos)
• δῐκτᾰμνῑ́της (diktamnī́tēs)
• δῐκτᾰμνοειδής (diktamnoeidḗs)

 

Descendants

• Greek: δίκταμο (díktamo)
• → Latin: dictamnum, dictamnus
  • Catalan: gitam
  • Old French: ditan
    • → English: dittany
  • Italian: dittamo
  • Translingual: Dictamnus

Further reading

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