ἔχιδνα
See also: έχιδνα
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editFrom ἔχις (ékhis, “snake”).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /é.kʰi.dna/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈe.kʰi.dna/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈe.çi.ðna/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈe.çi.ðna/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈe.çi.ðna/
Noun
editἔχιδνᾰ • (ékhidna) f (genitive ἐχίδνης); first declension
- snake (traditionally held as a poisonous snake, viper, but perhaps also a constrictor)
- (figuratively) a treacherous person
Inflection
edit| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ἔχιδνᾰ hē ékhidna |
τὼ ἐχίδνᾱ tṑ ekhídnā |
αἱ ἔχιδναι hai ékhidnai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ἐχίδνης tês ekhídnēs |
τοῖν ἐχίδναιν toîn ekhídnain |
τῶν ἐχιδνῶν tôn ekhidnôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ἐχίδνῃ têi ekhídnēi |
τοῖν ἐχίδναιν toîn ekhídnain |
ταῖς ἐχίδναις taîs ekhídnais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ἔχιδνᾰν tḕn ékhidnan |
τὼ ἐχίδνᾱ tṑ ekhídnā |
τᾱ̀ς ἐχίδνᾱς tā̀s ekhídnās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἔχιδνᾰ ékhidna |
ἐχίδνᾱ ekhídnā |
ἔχιδναι ékhidnai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
edit- Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܐܟܕܢܐ (ʾāḵeḏnā)
- English: echidna
- Greek: έχιδνα (échidna)
- Latin: echidna
- Russian: ехи́дна (jexídna)
References
edit- “ἔχιδνα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἔχιδνα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἔχιδνα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G2191 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.