λουκάνικον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Latin lūcānica (“Lucanian sausage”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /luˈka.ni.kon/

• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /luˈka.ni.kon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /luˈka.ni.kon/

Noun

λουκάνικον • (loukánikon) n (genitive λουκανίκου); second declension

1. (Byzantine) lucanica, loukaniko (a type of sausage)

Declension

Second declension of τὸ λουκάνικον; τοῦ λουκανίκου (Byzantine)

Case / #	Singular	Plural
Nominative	τὸ λουκάνικον tò loukánikon	τᾰ̀ λουκάνικᾰ tà loukánika
Genitive	τοῦ λουκανίκου toû loukaníkou	τῶν λουκανίκων tôn loukaníkōn
Dative	τῷ λουκανίκῳ tôi loukaníkōi	τοῖς λουκανίκοις toîs loukaníkois
Accusative	τὸ λουκάνικον tò loukánikon	τᾰ̀ λουκάνικᾰ tà loukánika
Vocative	λουκάνικον loukánikon	λουκάνικᾰ loukánika

Descendants

• Greek: λουκάνικο (loukániko)
  • → English: loukaniko
• → Albanian: llukanik
• → Aramaic: לוקניק (lūqānīq), נוקניק (nūqānīq)
  • → Arabic: نَقَانِق (naqāniq), لَقَانِق (laqāniq), مَقَانِق (maqāniq)
  • → Hebrew: נַקְנִיק (naqnīq)
  • → Persian: نکانک (nakânak)
• → Bulgarian: луканка (lukanka)
• → Macedonian: луканец (lukanec)
  • → Aromanian: lucánic, lucánica, culucancu
    • → Romanian: lucanică (rare)

Further reading

• “λουκάνικον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900) “λουκάνικον”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 721