σφάγνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, of Pre-Greek origin, together with σφάκος (sphákos) and φάσκον (pháskon).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /spʰá.ɡnos/ → /ˈsɸa.ɣnos/ → /ˈsfa.ɣnos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /spʰá.ɡnos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈspʰa.ɡnos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsɸa.ɣnos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsfa.ɣnos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsfa.ɣnos/

Noun

σφάγνος • (sphágnos) m (genitive σφάγνου); second declension

1. Greek sage (Salvia fruticosa)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ σφᾰ́γνος; τοῦ σφᾰ́γνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σφᾰ́γνος ho sphágnos	τὼ σφᾰ́γνω tṑ sphágnō	οἱ σφᾰ́γνοι hoi sphágnoi
Genitive	τοῦ σφᾰ́γνου toû sphágnou	τοῖν σφᾰ́γνοιν toîn sphágnoin	τῶν σφᾰ́γνων tôn sphágnōn
Dative	τῷ σφᾰ́γνῳ tôi sphágnōi	τοῖν σφᾰ́γνοιν toîn sphágnoin	τοῖς σφᾰ́γνοις toîs sphágnois
Accusative	τὸν σφᾰ́γνον tòn sphágnon	τὼ σφᾰ́γνω tṑ sphágnō	τοὺς σφᾰ́γνους toùs sphágnous
Vocative	σφᾰ́γνε sphágne	σφᾰ́γνω sphágnō	σφᾰ́γνοι sphágnoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Translingual: Sphagnum

Further reading

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