καρτάζωνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (klg /⁠karg⁠/, “rhinoceros; horn”) + [script needed] (-dʾn' /⁠-dān⁠/, “bearer, holder”), ultimately from Sanskrit खड्ग (khaḍga, “rhinoceros; literally sword bearer”). Compare Persian کرگدن (“rhino”), Arabic كَرْكَدَّن (karkaddan, “rhinoceros”), Classical Syriac ܟܪܟܕܢܐ (karkǝḏānā, “rhinoceros”), Sanskrit खड्गधेनु (khaḍgadhenu, “a female rhinoceros”) and Hindi खाँग (khāṅg).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kar.táz.dɔː.nos/ → /karˈta.zo.nos/ → /karˈta.zo.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kar.táz.dɔː.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /karˈta.zo.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /karˈta.zo.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /karˈta.zo.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /karˈta.zo.nos/

Noun

κᾰρτᾰ́ζωνος • (kartázōnos) m (genitive κᾰρτᾰζώνου); second declension

1. Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κᾰρτᾰ́ζωνος; τοῦ κᾰρτᾰζώνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κᾰρτᾰ́ζωνος ho kartázōnos	τὼ κᾰρτᾰζώνω tṑ kartazṓnō	οἱ κᾰρτᾰ́ζωνοι hoi kartázōnoi
Genitive	τοῦ κᾰρτᾰζώνου toû kartazṓnou	τοῖν κᾰρτᾰζώνοιν toîn kartazṓnoin	τῶν κᾰρτᾰζώνων tôn kartazṓnōn
Dative	τῷ κᾰρτᾰζώνῳ tôi kartazṓnōi	τοῖν κᾰρτᾰζώνοιν toîn kartazṓnoin	τοῖς κᾰρτᾰζώνοις toîs kartazṓnois
Accusative	τὸν κᾰρτᾰ́ζωνον tòn kartázōnon	τὼ κᾰρτᾰζώνω tṑ kartazṓnō	τοὺς κᾰρτᾰζώνους toùs kartazṓnous
Vocative	κᾰρτᾰ́ζωνε kartázōne	κᾰρτᾰζώνω kartazṓnō	κᾰρτᾰ́ζωνοι kartázōnoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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