ζωγάνης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Lewy connects the word to Hebrew סגן (ségen, “title for a Jewish priest of the Temple in Jerusalem; second-in-command”), suggesting a Semitic origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /zdɔː.ɡá.nɛːs/ → /zoˈɣa.nis/ → /zoˈɣa.nis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /zdɔː.ɡá.nɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /zoˈɡa.ne̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /zoˈɣa.nis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /zoˈɣa.nis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /zoˈɣa.nis/

Noun

ζωγᾰ́νης • (zōgắnēs) m (genitive ζωγᾰ́νου); first declension

1. slave-king at festivals in Babylonia

Inflection

First declension of ὁ ζωγᾰ́νης; τοῦ ζωγᾰ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ζωγᾰ́νης ho zōgắnēs	τὼ ζωγᾰ́νᾱ tṑ zōgắnā	οἱ ζωγᾰ́ναι hoi zōgắnai
Genitive	τοῦ ζωγᾰ́νου toû zōgắnou	τοῖν ζωγᾰ́ναιν toîn zōgắnain	τῶν ζωγᾰνῶν tôn zōgănôn
Dative	τῷ ζωγᾰ́νῃ tôi zōgắnēi	τοῖν ζωγᾰ́ναιν toîn zōgắnain	τοῖς ζωγᾰ́ναις toîs zōgắnais
Accusative	τὸν ζωγᾰ́νην tòn zōgắnēn	τὼ ζωγᾰ́νᾱ tṑ zōgắnā	τοὺς ζωγᾰ́νᾱς toùs zōgắnās
Vocative	ζωγᾰ́νη zōgắnē	ζωγᾰ́νᾱ zōgắnā	ζωγᾰ́ναι zōgắnai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ζωγάνης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ζωγάνης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Lewy, Heinrich (1895) Die semitischen Fremdwörter im Griechischen (in German), Berlin: R. Gaertner’s Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 129