σπλήν
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *sploiǵh₂ḗn. Cognate with Old Irish selg, Lithuanian blužnis, Latin lien, Old Armenian փայծաղն (pʿaycałn), Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬰𐬀𐬥 (spərəzan), and Sanskrit प्लीहन् (plīhán).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /splɛ̌ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /splen/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /splin/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /splin/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /splin/
Noun
σπλήν • (splḗn) m (genitive σπληνός); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ σπλήν ho splḗn |
τὼ σπλῆνε tṑ splêne |
οἱ σπλῆνες hoi splênes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ σπληνός toû splēnós |
τοῖν σπληνοῖν toîn splēnoîn |
τῶν σπληνῶν tôn splēnôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ σπληνῐ́ tôi splēní |
τοῖν σπληνοῖν toîn splēnoîn |
τοῖς σπλησῐ́(ν) toîs splēsí(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν σπλῆνᾰ tòn splêna |
τὼ σπλῆνε tṑ splêne |
τοὺς σπλῆνᾰς toùs splênas | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σπλήν splḗn |
σπλῆνε splêne |
σπλῆνες splênes | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Further reading
- σπλήν in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σπλήν 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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