ἄσπληνον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Perhaps from ᾰ̓- (a-, “un-”) + σπλήν (splḗn, “spleen”), because this plant would cure anthrax.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ás.plɛː.non/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈas.ple̝.non/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈas.pli.non/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈas.pli.non/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈas.pli.non/
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ἄσπληνον tò ásplēnon |
τὼ ἀσπλήνω tṑ asplḗnō |
τᾰ̀ ἄσπληνᾰ tà ásplēna | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ἀσπλήνου toû asplḗnou |
τοῖν ἀσπλήνοιν toîn asplḗnoin |
τῶν ἀσπλήνων tôn asplḗnōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ἀσπλήνῳ tôi asplḗnōi |
τοῖν ἀσπλήνοιν toîn asplḗnoin |
τοῖς ἀσπλήνοις toîs asplḗnois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ἄσπληνον tò ásplēnon |
τὼ ἀσπλήνω tṑ asplḗnō |
τᾰ̀ ἄσπληνᾰ tà ásplēna | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἄσπληνον ásplēnon |
ἀσπλήνω asplḗnō |
ἄσπληνᾰ ásplēna | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Latin: asplenum
- Translingual: Asplenium
Further reading
- “ἄσπληνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἄσπληνον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄσπληνον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- 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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