ἔτνος
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editUnknown. It has been connected with Scottish Gaelic eitean (“kernel, core”) and Old Armenian ունդ (und, “pulse”).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /é.tnos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈe.tnos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈe.tnos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈe.tnos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈe.tnos/
Noun
editἔτνος • (étnos) n (genitive ἔτνους); third declension
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “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
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