ἄκαστος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Maybe from *ἄκαρστος.^[1] Cognate to Latin acer. According to Beekes, since plant names are often borrowed, and the formation is unclear, it can be envisaged a Pre-Greek origin. Furnée compares κάστον (káston, “wood”) and κόστον (kóston, “wooden parts of a wagon”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /á.kas.tos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈa.kas.tos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.kas.tos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.kas.tos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈa.kas.tos/

Noun

ἄκαστος • (ákastos) m (genitive ἀκάστου); second declension

Montpelier maple (Acer monspessulanum)
Synonym: σφένδαμνος (sphéndamnos)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ἄκαστος; τοῦ ἀκάστου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἄκαστος ho ákastos	τὼ ἀκάστω tṑ akástō	οἱ ἄκαστοι hoi ákastoi
Genitive	τοῦ ἀκάστου toû akástou	τοῖν ἀκάστοιν toîn akástoin	τῶν ἀκάστων tôn akástōn
Dative	τῷ ἀκάστῳ tôi akástōi	τοῖν ἀκάστοιν toîn akástoin	τοῖς ἀκάστοις toîs akástois
Accusative	τὸν ἄκαστον tòn ákaston	τὼ ἀκάστω tṑ akástō	τοὺς ἀκάστους toùs akástous
Vocative	ἄκαστε ákaste	ἀκάστω akástō	ἄκαστοι ákastoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

→ Occitan: agast

References

“ἄκαστος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ἄκαστος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
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

^ Leschber, Corinna (2012) "Latin tree names and the European substratum" in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, volume 129, p. 120

[1] Leschber, Corinna (2012) "Latin tree names and the European substratum" in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, volume 129, p. 120

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