νᾶνος

See also: νάνος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

νᾰ́ννος (nánnos)

Etymology

Possibly onomatopoeic, though the logic behind the formation, as well as putative source if borrowed, is unclear.^[1] Compare perhaps English neener (playground insult).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /nâː.nos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈna.nos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈna.nos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈna.nos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈna.nos/

Noun

νᾶνος • (nânos) m (genitive νᾱ́νου); second declension

dwarf

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ νᾶνος; τοῦ νᾱ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ νᾶνος ho nânos	τὼ νᾱ́νω tṑ nā́nō	οἱ νᾶνοι hoi nânoi
Genitive	τοῦ νᾱ́νου toû nā́nou	τοῖν νᾱ́νοιν toîn nā́noin	τῶν νᾱ́νων tôn nā́nōn
Dative	τῷ νᾱ́νῳ tôi nā́nōi	τοῖν νᾱ́νοιν toîn nā́noin	τοῖς νᾱ́νοις toîs nā́nois
Accusative	τὸν νᾶνον tòn nânon	τὼ νᾱ́νω tṑ nā́nō	τοὺς νᾱ́νους toùs nā́nous
Vocative	νᾶνε nâne	νᾱ́νω nā́nō	νᾶνοι nânoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

νανίον (naníon)
νανοφυής (nanophuḗs)
νανώδης (nanṓdēs)

Descendants

Greek: νάνος (nános)
→ Hebrew: נַנָּס
→ Latin: nānus
- Asturian: nanu
- Catalan: nan
- → English: nano-
- French: nain
- Galician: anano
- Italian: nano
- Portuguese: anão
- Romanian: nan
- Sardinian: nanu
- Sicilian: nanu
- Spanish: enano

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “νᾶνος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 995

“νᾶνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“νᾶνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
νᾶνος 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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- dwarf idem, page 257.
- pigmy idem, page 612.

[1] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “νᾶνος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 995

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