παννυχίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πᾶς (pâs) +‎ νύξ (núx).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pan.ny.kʰís/ → /pan.nyˈçis/ → /pa.niˈçis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pan.ny.kʰís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pan.nyˈkʰis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pan.nyˈçis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pan.nyˈçis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pa.niˈçis/

Noun

πᾰννῠχῐ́ς • (pannukhís) f (genitive πᾰννῠχῐ́δος); third declension

1. night festival, vigil

Declension

Third declension of ἡ πᾰννῠχῐ́ς; τῆς πᾰννῠχῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πᾰννῠχῐ́ς hē pannukhís	τὼ πᾰννῠχῐ́δε tṑ pannukhíde	αἱ πᾰννῠχῐ́δες hai pannukhídes
Genitive	τῆς πᾰννῠχῐ́δος tês pannukhídos	τοῖν πᾰννῠχῐ́δοιν toîn pannukhídoin	τῶν πᾰννῠχῐ́δων tôn pannukhídōn
Dative	τῇ πᾰννῠχῐ́δῐ têi pannukhídi	τοῖν πᾰννῠχῐ́δοιν toîn pannukhídoin	ταῖς πᾰννῠχῐ́σῐ / πᾰννῠχῐ́σῐν taîs pannukhísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν πᾰννῠχῐ́δᾰ tḕn pannukhída	τὼ πᾰννῠχῐ́δε tṑ pannukhíde	τᾱ̀ς πᾰννῠχῐ́δᾰς tā̀s pannukhídas
Vocative	πᾰννῠχῐ́ς pannukhís	πᾰννῠχῐ́δε pannukhíde	πᾰννῠχῐ́δες pannukhídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• Greek: παννυχίδα (pannychída)
• → Polish: panichida (learned)
• → Russian: панихи́да (panixída) (learned)
  • → Armenian: պանիխիդա (panixida)

Further reading

• “παννυχίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• παννυχίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • festival idem, page 316.
  • nightly idem, page 558.