χάνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰan- / *gʰan- (“to yawn, to gape”), the same root of χάσκω (kháskō, “to yawn, gape”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰá.nos/ → /ˈxa.nos/ → /ˈxa.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰá.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰa.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈxa.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈxa.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈxa.nos/

Noun

χᾰ́νος • (khános) n (genitive χᾰ́νεος); third declension

1. mouth

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ χᾰ́νος; τοῦ χᾰ́νεος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ χᾰ́νος tò khános	τὼ χᾰ́νεε tṑ khánee	τᾰ̀ χᾰ́νεᾰ tà khánea
Genitive	τοῦ χᾰ́νεος toû kháneos	τοῖν χᾰνέοιν toîn khanéoin	τῶν χᾰνέων tôn khanéōn
Dative	τῷ χᾰ́νεῐ̈ tôi kháneï	τοῖν χᾰνέοιν toîn khanéoin	τοῖς χᾰ́νεσῐ / χᾰ́νεσῐν toîs khánesi(n)
Accusative	τὸ χᾰ́νος tò khános	τὼ χᾰ́νεε tṑ khánee	τᾰ̀ χᾰ́νεᾰ tà khánea
Vocative	χᾰ́νος khános	χᾰ́νεε khánee	χᾰ́νεᾰ khánea
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “χάνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χάνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “χάνος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011