ὀστέον

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Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ὀστοῦν (ostoûn) — Attic
ὀστεῦν (osteûn) — Poetic
ὄστιον (óstion) — Aeolic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁. Cognates include Latin os, Sanskrit अस्थि (ásthi), Old Armenian ոսկր (oskr), and Albanian asht.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /os.té.on/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /osˈte.on/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /osˈte.on/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /osˈte.on/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /osˈte.on/

Noun

ὀστέον • (ostéon) n (genitive ὀστέου); second declension

(anatomy) bone
(figuratively) bones of the earth = rock
stone of fruit

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ὀστέον; τοῦ ὀστέου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ὀστέον tò ostéon	τὼ ὀστέω tṑ ostéō	τᾰ̀ ὀστέᾰ tà ostéa
Genitive	τοῦ ὀστέου toû ostéou	τοῖν ὀστέοιν toîn ostéoin	τῶν ὀστέων tôn ostéōn
Dative	τῷ ὀστέῳ tôi ostéōi	τοῖν ὀστέοιν toîn ostéoin	τοῖς ὀστέοις toîs ostéois
Accusative	τὸ ὀστέον tò ostéon	τὼ ὀστέω tṑ ostéō	τᾰ̀ ὀστέᾰ tà ostéa
Vocative	ὀστέον ostéon	ὀστέω ostéō	ὀστέᾰ ostéa
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ὁλόστεον (holósteon)
ὀστέϊνος (ostéïnos)
ὀστᾰ́ρῐον (ostárion)

Descendants

Greek: οστό (ostó)

Further reading

“ὀστέον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ὀστέον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“ὀστέον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ὀστέον 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
ὀστέον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“ὀστέον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G4356 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
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

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