χρυσόνωτος

Ancient Greek

FWOTD – 12 March 2018

Etymology

χρῡσός (khrūsós, “gold”) +‎ νῶτον (nôton, “back”, metaphorically “any wide surface”) +‎ -ος (-os, suffix forming second-declension adjectives)

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰryː.só.nɔː.tos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰryˈso.no.tos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /xryˈso.no.tos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xryˈso.no.tos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xriˈso.no.tos/

Adjective

χρῡσόνωτος • (khrūsónōtos) m or f (neuter χρῡσόνωτον); second declension

with a golden back or surface
- 442 BCE – 441 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 845–849:
  σὺ δ’, ὦ τὸν αἰπὺν οὐρανὸν διφρηλατῶν
  Ἥλιε, πατρῴαν τὴν ἐμὴν ὅταν χθόνα
  ἴδῃς, ἐπισχὼν χρυσόνωτον ἡνίαν
  ἄγγειλον ἄτας τὰς ἐμὰς μόρον τ’ ἐμὸν
  γέροντι πατρὶ τῇ τε δυστήνῳ τροφῷ.
  sù d’, ô tòn aipùn ouranòn diphrēlatôn
  Hḗlie, patrṓian tḕn emḕn hótan khthóna
  ídēis, episkhṑn khrusónōton hēnían
  ángeilon átas tàs emàs móron t’ emòn
  géronti patrì têi te dustḗnōi trophôi.
  1893 translation by Richard Claverhouse Jebb
  And you, Helios, whose chariot-wheels climb the steep sky, when you see the land of my fathers, draw in your rein spread with gold and tell my disasters and my fate to my aged father and to the unhappy woman who nursed me.

Declension

Second declension of χρῡσόνωτος; χρῡσόνωτον (Attic)

Number	Singular		Dual		Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	χρῡσόνωτος khrūsónōtos	χρῡσόνωτον khrūsónōton	χρῡσονώτω khrūsonṓtō	χρῡσονώτω khrūsonṓtō	χρῡσόνωτοι khrūsónōtoi	χρῡσόνωτᾰ khrūsónōta
Genitive	χρῡσονώτου khrūsonṓtou	χρῡσονώτου khrūsonṓtou	χρῡσονώτοιν khrūsonṓtoin	χρῡσονώτοιν khrūsonṓtoin	χρῡσονώτων khrūsonṓtōn	χρῡσονώτων khrūsonṓtōn
Dative	χρῡσονώτῳ khrūsonṓtōi	χρῡσονώτῳ khrūsonṓtōi	χρῡσονώτοιν khrūsonṓtoin	χρῡσονώτοιν khrūsonṓtoin	χρῡσονώτοις khrūsonṓtois	χρῡσονώτοις khrūsonṓtois
Accusative	χρῡσόνωτον khrūsónōton	χρῡσόνωτον khrūsónōton	χρῡσονώτω khrūsonṓtō	χρῡσονώτω khrūsonṓtō	χρῡσονώτους khrūsonṓtous	χρῡσόνωτᾰ khrūsónōta
Vocative	χρῡσόνωτε khrūsónōte	χρῡσόνωτον khrūsónōton	χρῡσονώτω khrūsonṓtō	χρῡσονώτω khrūsonṓtō	χρῡσόνωτοι khrūsónōtoi	χρῡσόνωτᾰ khrūsónōta
Derived forms	Adverb		Comparative		Superlative
Derived forms	χρῡσονώτως khrūsonṓtōs		χρῡσονωτότερος khrūsonōtóteros		χρῡσονωτότᾰτος khrūsonōtótatos
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Latin: chrȳsonōtus

References

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