Ἐχινάδες

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐχῖνος (ekhînos, “hedgehog, sea urchin”) +‎ -ᾰ́δες (-ádes, plural form of -ᾰ́ς (-ás, feminine noun suffix)).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.kʰiː.ná.des/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.kʰiˈna.des/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.çiˈna.ðes/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.çiˈna.ðes/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.çiˈna.ðes/

Proper noun

Ἐχῑνᾰ́δες • (Ekhīnádes) f pl (genitive Ἐχῑνᾰ́δων); first declension

Common form of Ἐχῖναι (Ekhînai)
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.10.3:
  Ᾰ̓χελῴου, τῶν Ἐχῑνᾰ́δων νήσων τᾱ̀ς ἡμῐσέᾱς ἤδη ἤπειρον πεποίηκε.
  Akhelṓiou, […] tôn Ekhīnádōn nḗsōn tā̀s hēmiséās ḗdē ḗpeiron pepoíēke.
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.102.3:
  κεῖνται δὲ καὶ τῶν νήσων τῶν Ἐχινάδων αἱ πολλαὶ κᾰτᾰντικρῠ̀ Οἰνιᾰδῶν τοῦ Ᾰ̓χελῴου τῶν ἐκβολῶν οὐδὲν ᾰ̓πέχουσαι
  keîntai dè kaì tôn nḗsōn tôn Ekhinádōn hai pollaì katantikrù Oiniadôn toû Akhelṓiou tôn ekbolôn oudèn apékhousai

Inflection

Third declension of αἱ Ἐχῑνᾰ́δες; τῶν Ἐχῑνᾰ́δων (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	αἱ Ἐχῑνᾰ́δες hai Ekhīnádes
Genitive	τῶν Ἐχῑνᾰ́δων tôn Ekhīnádōn
Dative	ταῖς Ἐχῑνᾰ́σῐ / Ἐχῑνᾰ́σῐν taîs Ekhīnási(n)
Accusative	τᾱ̀ς Ἐχῑνᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s Ekhīnádas
Vocative	Ἐχῑνᾰ́δες Ekhīnádes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

→ Latin: Echīnadēs

References

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

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