στρύχνον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /strý.kʰnon/ → /ˈstry.xnon/ → /ˈstri.xnon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /strý.kʰnon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈstry.kʰnon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈstry.xnon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈstry.xnon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈstri.xnon/

Noun

στρύχνον • (strúkhnon) n (genitive στρύχνου); second declension

1. name of various nightshades:
   1. winter cherry (Alkekengi officinarum, syn. Physalis alkekengi)

      Synonym: ἁλικάκκαβον (halikákkabon)

   2. black nightshade (Solanum nigrum)
   3. thorn apple (Datura stramonium)

      Synonym: ἱππομᾰνές (hippomanés)

   4. ashwagandha (Withania somnifera)

      Synonyms: ἁλικάκκαβον (halikákkabon), κακκαλία (kakkalía), μώριος (mṓrios)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ στρῠ́χνον; τοῦ στρῠ́χνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ στρῠ́χνον tò strúkhnon	τὼ στρῠ́χνω tṑ strúkhnō	τᾰ̀ στρῠ́χνᾰ tà strúkhna
Genitive	τοῦ στρῠ́χνου toû strúkhnou	τοῖν στρῠ́χνοιν toîn strúkhnoin	τῶν στρῠ́χνων tôn strúkhnōn
Dative	τῷ στρῠ́χνῳ tôi strúkhnōi	τοῖν στρῠ́χνοιν toîn strúkhnoin	τοῖς στρῠ́χνοις toîs strúkhnois
Accusative	τὸ στρῠ́χνον tò strúkhnon	τὼ στρῠ́χνω tṑ strúkhnō	τᾰ̀ στρῠ́χνᾰ tà strúkhna
Vocative	στρῠ́χνον strúkhnon	στρῠ́χνω strúkhnō	στρῠ́χνᾰ strúkhna
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: στρύχνος (strýchnos)
• → Latin: strychnos

Further reading

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