κανών

Ancient Greek

Likely Pre-Greek, and generally connected with κάννα (kánna, “reed”).^[1]

κᾰνών • (kănṓn) m (genitive κᾰνόνος); third declension

Third declension of ὁ κᾰνών; τοῦ κᾰνόνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κᾰνών ho kănṓn	τὼ κᾰνόνε tṑ kănóne	οἱ κᾰνόνες hoi kănónes
Genitive	τοῦ κᾰνόνος toû kănónos	τοῖν κᾰνόνοιν toîn kănónoin	τῶν κᾰνόνων tôn kănónōn
Dative	τῷ κᾰνόνῐ tōî kănónĭ	τοῖν κᾰνόνοιν toîn kănónoin	τοῖς κᾰνόσῐ / κᾰνόσῐν toîs kănósĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν κᾰνόνᾰ tòn kănónă	τὼ κᾰνόνε tṑ kănóne	τοὺς κᾰνόνᾰς toùs kănónăs
Vocative	κᾰνών kănṓn	κᾰνόνε kănóne	κᾰνόνες kănónes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “κανών, -όνος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 637

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“κανών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“κανών”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
κανών in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
κανών in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
G2583 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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