ὕπνον
Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hý.pnon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)y.pnon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈy.pnon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈy.pnon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.pnon/
Etymology 1
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Noun
ῠ̔́πνον • (hŭ́pnon) n (genitive ῠ̔́πνου); second declension
- a kind of lichen
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ῠ̔́πνον tò hŭ́pnon |
τὼ ῠ̔́πνω tṑ hŭ́pnō |
τᾰ̀ ῠ̔́πνᾰ tằ hŭ́pnă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ῠ̔́πνου toû hŭ́pnou |
τοῖν ῠ̔́πνοιν toîn hŭ́pnoin |
τῶν ῠ̔́πνων tôn hŭ́pnōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ῠ̔́πνῳ tōî hŭ́pnōi |
τοῖν ῠ̔́πνοιν toîn hŭ́pnoin |
τοῖς ῠ̔́πνοις toîs hŭ́pnois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ῠ̔́πνον tò hŭ́pnon |
τὼ ῠ̔́πνω tṑ hŭ́pnō |
τᾰ̀ ῠ̔́πνᾰ tằ hŭ́pnă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ῠ̔́πνον hŭ́pnon |
ῠ̔́πνω hŭ́pnō |
ῠ̔́πνᾰ hŭ́pnă | ||||||||||
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Etymology 2
Noun
ῠ̔́πνον • (hŭ́pnon)
- accusative singular of ῠ̔́πνος (hŭ́pnos)
Further reading
- “ὕπνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὕπνον 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