κώδων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̌ː.dɔːn/ → /ˈko.ðon/ → /ˈko.ðon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɔ̌ː.dɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈko.don/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ðon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ðon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ðon/

Noun

κώδων • (kṓdōn) m (genitive κώδωνος); third declension

1. bell

Declension

Third declension of ὁ κώδων; τοῦ κώδωνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κώδων ho kṓdōn	τὼ κώδωνε tṑ kṓdōne	οἱ κώδωνες hoi kṓdōnes
Genitive	τοῦ κώδωνος toû kṓdōnos	τοῖν κωδώνοιν toîn kōdṓnoin	τῶν κωδώνων tôn kōdṓnōn
Dative	τῷ κώδωνῐ tôi kṓdōnĭ	τοῖν κωδώνοιν toîn kōdṓnoin	τοῖς κώδωσῐ / κώδωσῐν toîs kṓdōsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν κώδωνᾰ tòn kṓdōnă	τὼ κώδωνε tṑ kṓdōne	τοὺς κώδωνᾰς toùs kṓdōnăs
Vocative	κώδων kṓdōn	κώδωνε kṓdōne	κώδωνες kṓdōnes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κωδώνιον (kōdṓnion)

Descendants

• → English: codon
• Greek: κώδων (kódon)

Further reading

• “κώδων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κώδων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κώδων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κώδων in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • alarm bell idem, page 21.
  • bell idem, page 72.
  • tocsin idem, page 880.
• 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

Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κώδων (kṓdōn).

Noun

κώδων • (kódon) m (plural κώδωνες)

1. bell (Katharevousa form of κουδούνι (koudoúni))

Declension

Declension of κώδων

	singular	plural
nominative	κώδων (kódon)	κώδωνες (kódones)
genitive	κώδωνος (kódonos)	κωδώνων (kodónon)
accusative	κώδωνα (kódona)	κώδωνας (kódonas)
vocative	κώδων (kódon)	κώδωνες (kódones)

Synonyms

• κωδώνιον n (kodónion)
• καμπάνα f (kampána)

Related terms

• κωδωνοκρουσία f (kodonokrousía, “bell ringing”)
• κωδωνοκρούστης m (kodonokroústis, “bell ringer”)
• κωδωνοστάσιο n (kodonostásio, “bell tower, belfry”)
• καταδυτικός κώδων m (katadytikós kódon, “diving bell”)