ῥυκάνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The formation is similar to σκαπάνη (skapánē), δρεπάνη (drepánē) and other instrument names, but the root is unknown. The word has been connected to Sanskrit स्रुच् (sruc, “sort of large wooden ladle”), but this fails to account for the meaning. A Pre-Greek origin is certainly a possibility for this word.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥y.ká.nɛː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ryˈka.ne̝/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ryˈka.ni/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ryˈka.ni/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /riˈka.ni/

Noun

ῥῠκᾰ́νη • (rhukánē) f (genitive ῥῠκᾰ́νης); first declension

plane, a tool for smoothing wood

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ῥῠκᾰ́νη; τῆς ῥῠκᾰ́νης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῥῠκᾰ́νη hē rhukánē	τὼ ῥῠκᾰ́νᾱ tṑ rhukánā	αἱ ῥῠκᾰ́ναι hai rhukánai
Genitive	τῆς ῥῠκᾰ́νης tês rhukánēs	τοῖν ῥῠκᾰ́ναιν toîn rhukánain	τῶν ῥῠκᾰνῶν tôn rhukanôn
Dative	τῇ ῥῠκᾰ́νῃ têi rhukánēi	τοῖν ῥῠκᾰ́ναιν toîn rhukánain	ταῖς ῥῠκᾰ́ναις taîs rhukánais
Accusative	τὴν ῥῠκᾰ́νην tḕn rhukánēn	τὼ ῥῠκᾰ́νᾱ tṑ rhukánā	τᾱ̀ς ῥῠκᾰ́νᾱς tā̀s rhukánās
Vocative	ῥῠκᾰ́νη rhukánē	ῥῠκᾰ́νᾱ rhukánā	ῥῠκᾰ́ναι rhukánai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ῥυκάνησις (rhukánēsis)
ῥυκανίζω (rhukanízō)

Descendants

→ Latin: runcīna

“ῥυκάνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ῥυκάνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ῥυκάνη 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