ἀμνός

See also: αμνός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *abnós, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʷnós. Cognates include Latin agnus, Old Church Slavonic агнѧ (agnę), Old English ēanian (English yean), and Albanian enjë.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /am.nós/ → /amˈnos/ → /amˈnos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /am.nós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /amˈnos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /amˈnos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /amˈnos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /amˈnos/

Noun

ἀμνός • (amnós) m (genitive ἀμνοῦ); second declension

1. lamb

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ἀμνός; τοῦ ἀμνοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἀμνός ho amnós	τὼ ἀμνώ tṑ amnṓ	οἱ ἀμνοί hoi amnoí
Genitive	τοῦ ἀμνοῦ toû amnoû	τοῖν ἀμνοῖν toîn amnoîn	τῶν ἀμνῶν tôn amnôn
Dative	τῷ ἀμνῷ tôi amnôi	τοῖν ἀμνοῖν toîn amnoîn	τοῖς ἀμνοῖς toîs amnoîs
Accusative	τὸν ἀμνόν tòn amnón	τὼ ἀμνώ tṑ amnṓ	τοὺς ἀμνούς toùs amnoús
Vocative	ἀμνέ amné	ἀμνώ amnṓ	ἀμνοί amnoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

The inflected forms are usually taken from ἀρήν (arḗn).

Coordinate terms

• πρόβατον (próbaton)
• οἶς (oîs)
• ἀρήν (arḗn)
• κριός (kriós)

Derived terms

• ἀμνίον (amníon) (diminutive)

Related terms

• ἀμνή (amnḗ)

Descendants

• Greek: αμνός (amnós)

Further reading

• “ἀμνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀμνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀμνός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀμνός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G286 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible