δεκανός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin decānus.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /de.kaː.nós/ → /ðe.kaˈnos/ → /ðe.kaˈnos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /de.kaː.nós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /de.kaˈnos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ðe.kaˈnos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðe.kaˈnos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðe.kaˈnos/

Noun

δεκᾱνός • (dekānós) m (genitive δεκᾱνοῦ); second declension

1. (at Rome) decanus, decurion
2. (in Egypt) police officer
3. (astrology, in the plural) decans

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ δεκᾱνός; τοῦ δεκᾱνοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ δεκᾱνός ho dekānós	τὼ δεκᾱνώ tṑ dekānṓ	οἱ δεκᾱνοί hoi dekānoí
Genitive	τοῦ δεκᾱνοῦ toû dekānoû	τοῖν δεκᾱνοῖν toîn dekānoîn	τῶν δεκᾱνῶν tôn dekānôn
Dative	τῷ δεκᾱνῷ tôi dekānôi	τοῖν δεκᾱνοῖν toîn dekānoîn	τοῖς δεκᾱνοῖς toîs dekānoîs
Accusative	τὸν δεκᾱνόν tòn dekānón	τὼ δεκᾱνώ tṑ dekānṓ	τοὺς δεκᾱνούς toùs dekānoús
Vocative	δεκᾱνέ dekāné	δεκᾱνώ dekānṓ	δεκᾱνοί dekānoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• δεκᾱνῐ́ᾱ (dekānĭ́ā)
• δεκᾱνῐκός (dekānĭkós)

Descendants

• Byzantine Greek: δεκανός (dekanós)

Further reading

• “δεκανός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• δεκανός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• δεκανός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)