ὀξύγγιον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀξούγγία (axoúngía)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin axungia (“grease”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ok.sýŋ.ɡi.on/ → /okˈsyɲ.ɟi.on/ → /okˈsiɲ.ɟi.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ok.sýŋ.ɡi.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /okˈsyŋ.ɡi.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /okˈsyɲ.ɟi.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /okˈsyɲ.ɟi.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /okˈsiɲ.ɟi.on/

Noun

ὀξῠ́γγῐον • (oxúngion) n (genitive ὀξῠγγῐ́ου); second declension

1. grease, lard

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ὀξῠ́γγῐον; τοῦ ὀξῠγγῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ὀξῠ́γγῐον tò oxúngion	τὼ ὀξῠγγῐ́ω tṑ oxungíō	τᾰ̀ ὀξῠ́γγῐᾰ tà oxúngia
Genitive	τοῦ ὀξῠγγῐ́ου toû oxungíou	τοῖν ὀξῠγγῐ́οιν toîn oxungíoin	τῶν ὀξῠγγῐ́ων tôn oxungíōn
Dative	τῷ ὀξῠγγῐ́ῳ tôi oxungíōi	τοῖν ὀξῠγγῐ́οιν toîn oxungíoin	τοῖς ὀξῠγγῐ́οις toîs oxungíois
Accusative	τὸ ὀξῠ́γγῐον tò oxúngion	τὼ ὀξῠγγῐ́ω tṑ oxungíō	τᾰ̀ ὀξῠ́γγῐᾰ tà oxúngia
Vocative	ὀξῠ́γγῐον oxúngion	ὀξῠγγῐ́ω oxungíō	ὀξῠ́γγῐᾰ oxúngia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: ξίγκι (xígki)

Further reading

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