ὑάκινθος

See also: υάκινθος and Ὑάκινθος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Of Mediterranean Pre-Greek substrate origin and possibly related to Latin vaccinium.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hy.á.kin.tʰos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)yˈa.kin.tʰos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /yˈa.kin.θos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /yˈa.cin.θos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈa.cin.θos/

Noun

ῠ̔ᾰ́κινθος • (huákinthos) m (genitive ῠ̔ᾰκίνθου); second declension

The alpine squill (Scilla bifolia)
The larkspur (Consolida ajacis)
A certain type of blue
A blue precious stone, perhaps aquamarine

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ὑάκινθος; τοῦ ὑακίνθου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὑάκινθος ho huákinthos	τὼ ὑακίνθω tṑ huakínthō	οἱ ὑάκινθοι hoi huákinthoi
Genitive	τοῦ ὑακίνθου toû huakínthou	τοῖν ὑακίνθοιν toîn huakínthoin	τῶν ὑακίνθων tôn huakínthōn
Dative	τῷ ὑακίνθῳ tôi huakínthōi	τοῖν ὑακίνθοιν toîn huakínthoin	τοῖς ὑακίνθοις toîs huakínthois
Accusative	τὸν ὑάκινθον tòn huákinthon	τὼ ὑακίνθω tṑ huakínthō	τοὺς ὑακίνθους toùs huakínthous
Vocative	ὑάκινθε huákinthe	ὑακίνθω huakínthō	ὑάκινθοι huákinthoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

Ὑάκινθος (Huákinthos)

Descendants

Greek: υάκινθος (yákinthos)
→ Classical Syriac: ܝܩܘܢܕܐ‎ (yāqūndāʾ, yaqqūndāʾ), ܝܘܩܢܛܐ‎ (yūqanṭāʾ, “jacinth”)
→ Latin: hyacinthus
- → English: hyacinth
- → French: jacinthe
- → Swedish: hyacint
  - → Finnish: hyasintti
- → German: Hyazinthe
  - → Russian: гиаци́нт (giacínt)
- → Middle High German: jâchant
  - → Old Polish: jachant
    - → Old East Slavic: ꙗхонт (jaxont)
      - Russian: я́хонт (jáxont)
      - Ukrainian: яхонт (jaxont)
- → Spanish: jacinto
- → Serbo-Croatian: hijàcint / хија̀цинт
→ Middle Persian: yʾknd (yākand, “ruby”)
- Persian: یاکند‎ (yâkand)
→ Old Armenian: յակինթ (yakintʿ)
- → Georgian: იაკინთი (iaḳinti)
→ Old Church Slavonic: акинтъ (akintŭ), акунтъ (akuntŭ), ꙗкинфъ (jakinfŭ)
→ Parthian:
- Manichaean: 𐫏𐫀𐫐𐫇𐫗𐫅‎ (yʾkwnd /yākund/)
- → Old Armenian: յակունդ (yakund)
  - → Georgian: იაგუნდი (iagundi)
→ Sogdian: [script needed] (yγwth /yaγūt/, “ruby”)
- → Arabic: ياقوت‎ (yāqūt)
  - → Kurdish: yaqût
  - → Middle Armenian: եաղութ (eałutʿ)
  - → Persian: یاقوت‎ (yâqut)
    - → Ottoman Turkish: یاقوت‎ (yakut)
      - Turkish: yakut
      - → Serbo-Croatian: jàkut / ја̀кут
    - → Hindustani:
      - Hindi: याक़ूत (yāqūt)
      - Urdu: یاقوت‎ (yāqūt)
    - → Uyghur: ياقۇت‎ (yaqut)

References

ὑάκινθος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ὑάκινθος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ὑάκινθος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ὑάκινθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ὑάκινθος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
G5192 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1523

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