ψήν

See also: ψῆν

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek. The connection with ψάω (psáō, “to rub, grate”) is hardly possible. The suffix -ήν can be found also in κηφήν (kēphḗn, “drone”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /psɛ̌ːn/ → /psin/ → /psin/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /psɛ̌ːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pse̝n/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /psin/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /psin/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /psin/

Noun

ψήν • (psḗn) m (genitive ψηνός); third declension

1. gall wasp (insect of the family Cynipidae)

Declension

Third declension of ὁ ψήν; τοῦ ψηνός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ψήν ho psḗn	τὼ ψῆνε tṑ psêne	οἱ ψῆνες hoi psênes
Genitive	τοῦ ψηνός toû psēnós	τοῖν ψηνοῖν toîn psēnoîn	τῶν ψηνῶν tôn psēnôn
Dative	τῷ ψηνῐ́ tôi psēní	τοῖν ψηνοῖν toîn psēnoîn	τοῖς ψησῐ́ / ψησῐ́ν toîs psēsí(n)
Accusative	τὸν ψῆνᾰ tòn psêna	τὼ ψῆνε tṑ psêne	τοὺς ψῆνᾰς toùs psênas
Vocative	ψήν psḗn	ψῆνε psêne	ψῆνες psênes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ψηνίζω (psēnízō)

Descendants

• → Translingual: Psen

Further reading

• “ψήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ψήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ψήν 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