ὁλόστεον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὅλος (hólos, “entire, whole”) +‎ ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ho.lós.te.on/ → /oˈlos.te.on/ → /oˈlos.te.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ho.lós.te.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)oˈlos.te.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /oˈlos.te.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /oˈlos.te.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /oˈlos.te.on/

Noun

ὁλόστεον • (holósteon) n (genitive ὁλοστέου); second declension

1. a plantain of species Plantago albicans.

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ὁλόστεον; τοῦ ὁλοστέου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ὁλόστεον tò holósteon	τὼ ὁλοστέω tṑ holostéō	τᾰ̀ ὁλόστεᾰ tà holóstea
Genitive	τοῦ ὁλοστέου toû holostéou	τοῖν ὁλοστέοιν toîn holostéoin	τῶν ὁλοστέων tôn holostéōn
Dative	τῷ ὁλοστέῳ tôi holostéōi	τοῖν ὁλοστέοιν toîn holostéoin	τοῖς ὁλοστέοις toîs holostéois
Accusative	τὸ ὁλόστεον tò holósteon	τὼ ὁλοστέω tṑ holostéō	τᾰ̀ ὁλόστεᾰ tà holóstea
Vocative	ὁλόστεον holósteon	ὁλοστέω holostéō	ὁλόστεᾰ holóstea
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Holosteum

Further reading

• “ὁλόστεον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὁλόστεον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette