νῶτον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *not- (“rear, buttock”); related to Latin natis (“rump”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /nɔ̂ː.ton/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈno.ton/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈno.ton/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈno.ton/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈno.ton/
Noun
νῶτον • (nôton) n (genitive νώτου); second declension
- the back, the rear part of the body
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ νῶτον tò nôton |
τὼ νώτω tṑ nṓtō |
τᾰ̀ νῶτᾰ tà nôta | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ νώτου toû nṓtou |
τοῖν νώτοιν toîn nṓtoin |
τῶν νώτων tôn nṓtōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ νώτῳ tôi nṓtōi |
τοῖν νώτοιν toîn nṓtoin |
τοῖς νώτοις toîs nṓtois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ νῶτον tò nôton |
τὼ νώτω tṑ nṓtō |
τᾰ̀ νῶτᾰ tà nôta | ||||||||||
| Vocative | νῶτον nôton |
νώτω nṓtō |
νῶτᾰ nôta | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Descendants
- English: noto-
- Greek: νώτα (nóta) (plurale tantum)
Further reading
- νῶτον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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