ἔτνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown. It has been connected with Scottish Gaelic eitean (“kernel, core”) and Old Armenian ունդ (und, “pulse”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /é.tnos/ → /ˈe.tnos/ → /ˈe.tnos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /é.tnos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈe.tnos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈe.tnos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈe.tnos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈe.tnos/

Noun

ἔτνος • (étnos) n (genitive ἔτνους); third declension

1. thick soup made with peas or beans

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ ἔτνος; τοῦ ἔτνους (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἔτνος tò étnos	τὼ ἔτνει tṑ étnei	τᾰ̀ ἔτνη tà étnē
Genitive	τοῦ ἔτνους toû étnous	τοῖν ἐτνοῖν toîn etnoîn	τῶν ἐτνῶν tôn etnôn
Dative	τῷ ἔτνει tôi étnei	τοῖν ἐτνοῖν toîn etnoîn	τοῖς ἔτνεσῐ / ἔτνεσῐν toîs étnesi(n)
Accusative	τὸ ἔτνος tò étnos	τὼ ἔτνει tṑ étnei	τᾰ̀ ἔτνη tà étnē
Vocative	ἔτνος étnos	ἔτνει étnei	ἔτνη étnē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἐτνηρός (etnērós)
• ἐτνήρυσις (etnḗrusis)
• ἐτνίτης (etnítēs)
• ἐτνοδόνος (etnodónos)

 

Further reading

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