μάλδακον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Furnée thinks it is a Semitic loan standing for *μαδαλκον (*madalkon), and compares בְּדֹלַח (bdólakh) and Akkadian 𒁉𒁺𒌨𒄷 (bidurḫu).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mál.da.kon/ → /ˈmal.ða.kon/ → /ˈmal.ða.kon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mál.da.kon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmal.da.kon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmal.ða.kon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmal.ða.kon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmal.ða.kon/

Noun

μᾰ́λδᾰκον • (máldakon) n (genitive μᾰλδᾰ́κου); second declension

1. bdellium

   Synonyms: βδέλλῐον (bdéllion), βλόχον (blókhon)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ μᾰ́λδᾰκον; τοῦ μᾰλδᾰ́κου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ μᾰ́λδᾰκον tò máldakon	τὼ μᾰλδᾰ́κω tṑ maldákō	τᾰ̀ μᾰ́λδᾰκᾰ tà máldaka
Genitive	τοῦ μᾰλδᾰ́κου toû maldákou	τοῖν μᾰλδᾰ́κοιν toîn maldákoin	τῶν μᾰλδᾰ́κων tôn maldákōn
Dative	τῷ μᾰλδᾰ́κῳ tôi maldákōi	τοῖν μᾰλδᾰ́κοιν toîn maldákoin	τοῖς μᾰλδᾰ́κοις toîs maldákois
Accusative	τὸ μᾰ́λδᾰκον tò máldakon	τὼ μᾰλδᾰ́κω tṑ maldákō	τᾰ̀ μᾰ́λδᾰκᾰ tà máldaka
Vocative	μᾰ́λδᾰκον máldakon	μᾰλδᾰ́κω maldákō	μᾰ́λδᾰκᾰ máldaka
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: maldacon

Further reading

• “μάλδακον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μάλδακον 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