γονεύς
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From o-grade of the root of γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “to be born”) + -εύς (-eús, “-er”, masculine agent noun suffix).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɡo.něu̯s/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ɡoˈnews/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ɣoˈneɸs/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ɣoˈnefs/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ɣoˈnefs/
Noun
[edit]γονεύς • (goneús) m (genitive γονέως); third declension
- (mostly in plural) parent
- 7th–6th centuries BC, Homeric Hymn to Demeter 240
- progenitor, ancestor
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ γονεύς ho goneús |
τὼ γονῆ tṑ gonê |
οἱ γονῆς / γονεῖς hoi gonês / goneîs | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ γονέως toû gonéōs |
τοῖν γονέοιν toîn gonéoin |
τῶν γονέων tôn gonéōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ γονεῖ tôi goneî |
τοῖν γονέοιν toîn gonéoin |
τοῖς γονεῦσῐ / γονεῦσῐν toîs goneûsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν γονέᾱ tòn gonéā |
τὼ γονῆ tṑ gonê |
τοὺς γονέᾱς toùs gonéās | ||||||||||
Vocative | γονεῦ goneû |
γονῆ gonê |
γονῆς / γονεῖς gonês / goneîs | ||||||||||
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References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “γίγνομαι (> DER > 1. > γονεύς)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 272-3
Further reading
[edit]- “γονεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “γονεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- γονεύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- γονεύς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “γονεύς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G1118 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.
- begetter idem, page 70.
- parent idem, page 592.
- procreator idem, page 644.
- propagator idem, page 653.
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵenh₁-
- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -εύς
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek oxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension