καρτάζωνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (klg /⁠karg⁠/, “rhinoceros; horn”) + [script needed] (-dʾn' /⁠-dān⁠/, “bearer, holder”), ultimately from Sanskrit खड्ग (khaḍga, “rhinoceros; literally sword bearer”). Compare Persian کرگدن (“rhino”), Arabic كَرْكَدَّن (karkaddan, “rhinoceros”), Classical Syriac ܟܪܟܕܢܐ (karkǝḏānā, “rhinoceros”), Sanskrit खड्गधेनु (khaḍgadhenu, “a female rhinoceros”) and Hindi खाँग (khāṅg).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kar.táz.dɔː.nos/ → /karˈta.zo.nos/ → /karˈta.zo.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kar.táz.dɔː.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /karˈta.zo.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /karˈta.zo.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /karˈta.zo.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /karˈta.zo.nos/

Noun

κᾰρτᾰ́ζωνος • (kărtắzōnos) m (genitive κᾰρτᾰζώνου); second declension

1. Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κᾰρτᾰ́ζωνος; τοῦ κᾰρτᾰζώνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κᾰρτᾰ́ζωνος ho kărtắzōnos	τὼ κᾰρτᾰζώνω tṑ kărtăzṓnō	οἱ κᾰρτᾰ́ζωνοι hoi kărtắzōnoi
Genitive	τοῦ κᾰρτᾰζώνου toû kărtăzṓnou	τοῖν κᾰρτᾰζώνοιν toîn kărtăzṓnoin	τῶν κᾰρτᾰζώνων tôn kărtăzṓnōn
Dative	τῷ κᾰρτᾰζώνῳ tôi kărtăzṓnōi	τοῖν κᾰρτᾰζώνοιν toîn kărtăzṓnoin	τοῖς κᾰρτᾰζώνοις toîs kărtăzṓnois
Accusative	τὸν κᾰρτᾰ́ζωνον tòn kărtắzōnon	τὼ κᾰρτᾰζώνω tṑ kărtăzṓnō	τοὺς κᾰρτᾰζώνους toùs kărtăzṓnous
Vocative	κᾰρτᾰ́ζωνε kărtắzōne	κᾰρτᾰζώνω kărtăzṓnō	κᾰρτᾰ́ζωνοι kărtắzōnoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “καρτάζωνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• καρτάζωνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN