κτένιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κτείς (kteís, “a comb”) +‎ -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kté.ni.on/ → /ˈkte.ni.on/ → /ˈkte.ni.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kté.ni.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkte.ni.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkte.ni.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkte.ni.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkte.ni.on/

Noun

κτένῐον • (kténĭon) n (genitive κτενῐ́ου); second declension

1. diminutive of κτείς (kteís)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κτένῐον; τοῦ κτενῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κτένῐον tò kténĭon	τὼ κτενῐ́ω tṑ ktenĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ κτένῐᾰ tằ kténĭă
Genitive	τοῦ κτενῐ́ου toû ktenĭ́ou	τοῖν κτενῐ́οιν toîn ktenĭ́oin	τῶν κτενῐ́ων tôn ktenĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ κτενῐ́ῳ tôi ktenĭ́ōi	τοῖν κτενῐ́οιν toîn ktenĭ́oin	τοῖς κτενῐ́οις toîs ktenĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ κτένῐον tò kténĭon	τὼ κτενῐ́ω tṑ ktenĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ κτένῐᾰ tằ kténĭă
Vocative	κτένῐον kténĭon	κτενῐ́ω ktenĭ́ō	κτένῐᾰ kténĭă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Byzantine Greek: κτένιν (kténin), κτένι (kténi), χτένι (khténi)
  • Greek: χτένι (chténi), χτένα (chténa)
• → Translingual: Ctenium

Further reading

• “κτένιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κτένιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κτένιον in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften