ἄνηθον
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ἄνηθον illustration in the Vienna Dioscurides
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Most likely Pre-Greek.[1] Not to be confused with ἄννησον (ánnēson).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /á.nɛː.tʰon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈa.ne̝.tʰon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.ni.θon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.ni.θon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.ni.θon/
Noun
ἄνηθον • (ánēthon) n (genitive ἀνήθου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ἄνηθον tò ánēthon |
τὼ ἀνήθω tṑ anḗthō |
τᾰ̀ ἄνηθᾰ tằ ánēthă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ἀνήθου toû anḗthou |
τοῖν ἀνήθοιν toîn anḗthoin |
τῶν ἀνήθων tôn anḗthōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ἀνήθῳ tôi anḗthōi |
τοῖν ἀνήθοιν toîn anḗthoin |
τοῖς ἀνήθοις toîs anḗthois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ἄνηθον tò ánēthon |
τὼ ἀνήθω tṑ anḗthō |
τᾰ̀ ἄνηθᾰ tằ ánēthă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἄνηθον ánēthon |
ἀνήθω anḗthō |
ἄνηθᾰ ánēthă | ||||||||||
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Synonyms
- ἀνίκητον (aníkēton)
Derived terms
- ἀνηθέλαιον (anēthélaion)
- ἀνήθινος (anḗthinos)
- ἀνηθίτης (anēthítēs)
- ἀνηθοειδής (anēthoeidḗs)
- ξυλάνηθον (xulánēthon)
Descendants
References
- ^ Barber, Sievers' Law and the History of Semivowel Syllabicity in Indo-European and Ancient Greek
Further reading
- “ἄνηθον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄνηθον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἄνηθον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄνηθον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- G432 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible