τύμπανον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- τῠ́πᾰνον (túpanon) – Poetic
Etymology
From τῠ́πτω (túptō, “I strike, beat”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tým.pa.non/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtym.pa.non/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈtym.pa.non/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈtym.pa.non/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈtim.ba.non/
Noun
τῠ́μπᾰνον • (túmpanon) n (genitive τῠμπᾰ́νου); second declension
- drum, kettledrum
- 484 BCE – 425 BCE, Herodotus, 4.76
- ἐς ταύτην δὴ καταδὺς ὁ Ἀνάχαρσις τὴν ὁρτὴν ἐπετέλεε πᾶσαν τῇ θεῷ, τύμπανον τε ἔχων καὶ ἐκδησάμενος ἀγάλματα.
- es taútēn dḕ katadùs ho Anákharsis tḕn hortḕn epetélee pâsan têi theôi, túmpanon te ékhōn kaì ekdēsámenos agálmata.
- Hidden there, Anacharsis celebrated the goddess' ritual with exactness, carrying a small drum and hanging images about himself.
- es taútēn dḕ katadùs ho Anákharsis tḕn hortḕn epetélee pâsan têi theôi, túmpanon te ékhōn kaì ekdēsámenos agálmata.
- ἐς ταύτην δὴ καταδὺς ὁ Ἀνάχαρσις τὴν ὁρτὴν ἐπετέλεε πᾶσαν τῇ θεῷ, τύμπανον τε ἔχων καὶ ἐκδησάμενος ἀγάλματα.
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- drumstick, staff, cudgel
- instrument of torture
- cylinder or drum of a piston
- wheel
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ τῠ́μπᾰνον tò túmpanon |
τὼ τῠμπᾰ́νω tṑ tumpánō |
τᾰ̀ τῠ́μπᾰνᾰ tà túmpana | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ τῠμπᾰ́νου toû tumpánou |
τοῖν τῠμπᾰ́νοιν toîn tumpánoin |
τῶν τῠμπᾰ́νων tôn tumpánōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ τῠμπᾰ́νῳ tôi tumpánōi |
τοῖν τῠμπᾰ́νοιν toîn tumpánoin |
τοῖς τῠμπᾰ́νοις toîs tumpánois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ τῠ́μπᾰνον tò túmpanon |
τὼ τῠμπᾰ́νω tṑ tumpánō |
τᾰ̀ τῠ́μπᾰνᾰ tà túmpana | ||||||||||
| Vocative | τῠ́μπᾰνον túmpanon |
τῠμπᾰ́νω tumpánō |
τῠ́μπᾰνᾰ túmpana | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Derived Terms
- τυμπανίζω (tumpanízō)
- ἀποτυμπανίζω (apotumpanízō)
Descendants
Further reading
- τύμπανον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τύμπανον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τύμπανον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “timbre” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2018.
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