ξόανον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ξέω (xéō, “to carve, smooth”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ksó.a.non/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkso.a.non/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkso.a.non/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkso.a.non/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkso.a.non/
Noun
ξόᾰνον • (xóanon) n (genitive ξοᾰ́νου); second declension
- an image of carved wood, an image, statue, especially of a god; xoanon
- Euripides, The Trojan Women 1074
- Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.17.2
- a musical instrument
- Sophocles, Fragments 238
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ξόᾰνον tò xóanon |
τὼ ξοᾰ́νω tṑ xoánō |
τᾰ̀ ξόᾰνᾰ tà xóana | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ξοᾰ́νου toû xoánou |
τοῖν ξοᾰ́νοιν toîn xoánoin |
τῶν ξοᾰ́νων tôn xoánōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ξοᾰ́νῳ tôi xoánōi |
τοῖν ξοᾰ́νοιν toîn xoánoin |
τοῖς ξοᾰ́νοις toîs xoánois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ξόᾰνον tò xóanon |
τὼ ξοᾰ́νω tṑ xoánō |
τᾰ̀ ξόᾰνᾰ tà xóana | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ξόᾰνον xóanon |
ξοᾰ́νω xoánō |
ξόᾰνᾰ xóana | ||||||||||
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References
- ξόανον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ξόανον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ξόανον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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