ὤκινον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from the same Pre-Greek root of ἄκινος (ákinos, “wild basil”) and ὤκιμον (ṓkimon, “basil”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̌ː.ki.non/ → /ˈo.ci.non/ → /ˈo.ci.non/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɔ̌ː.ki.non/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ki.non/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ci.non/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ci.non/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ci.non/

Noun

ὤκῐνον • (ṓkinon) n (genitive ὠκῐ́νου); second declension

1. kind of fodder-plant, perhaps clover

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ὤκῐνον; τοῦ ὠκῐ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ὤκῐνον tò ṓkinon	τὼ ὠκῐ́νω tṑ ōkínō	τᾰ̀ ὤκῐνᾰ tà ṓkina
Genitive	τοῦ ὠκῐ́νου toû ōkínou	τοῖν ὠκῐ́νοιν toîn ōkínoin	τῶν ὠκῐ́νων tôn ōkínōn
Dative	τῷ ὠκῐ́νῳ tôi ōkínōi	τοῖν ὠκῐ́νοιν toîn ōkínoin	τοῖς ὠκῐ́νοις toîs ōkínois
Accusative	τὸ ὤκῐνον tò ṓkinon	τὼ ὠκῐ́νω tṑ ōkínō	τᾰ̀ ὤκῐνᾰ tà ṓkina
Vocative	ὤκῐνον ṓkinon	ὠκῐ́νω ōkínō	ὤκῐνᾰ ṓkina
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: ōcinum

Further reading

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