ἄγκιστρον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἄγκος (ánkos, “bend”) +‎ -τρον (-tron).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /áŋ.kis.tron/ → /ˈaɲ.ɟis.tron/ → /ˈaɲ.ɟis.tron/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /áŋ.kis.tron/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈaŋ.kis.tron/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈaɲ.ɟis.tron/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈaɲ.ɟis.tron/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈaɲ.ɟis.tron/

Noun

ᾰ̓́γκῐστρον • (ánkistron) n (genitive ᾰ̓γκῐ́στρου); second declension

1. fishhook
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.369
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.70
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 616C
   • 200 CE – 400 CE, Philumenus, On Poisonous Animals and Their Remedies 2.6
   • 400 CE – 500 CE, Caelius Aurelianus, Chronic Diseases 5.1
   • 155 CE – 235 CE, Cassius Dio, Collected Works 60.35

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ᾰ̓́γκῐστρον; τοῦ ᾰ̓γκῐ́στρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ᾰ̓́γκῐστρον tò ánkistron	τὼ ᾰ̓γκῐ́στρω tṑ ankístrō	τᾰ̀ ᾰ̓́γκῐστρᾰ tà ánkistra
Genitive	τοῦ ᾰ̓γκῐ́στρου toû ankístrou	τοῖν ᾰ̓γκῐ́στροιν toîn ankístroin	τῶν ᾰ̓γκῐ́στρων tôn ankístrōn
Dative	τῷ ᾰ̓γκῐ́στρῳ tôi ankístrōi	τοῖν ᾰ̓γκῐ́στροιν toîn ankístroin	τοῖς ᾰ̓γκῐ́στροις toîs ankístrois
Accusative	τὸ ᾰ̓́γκῐστρον tò ánkistron	τὼ ᾰ̓γκῐ́στρω tṑ ankístrō	τᾰ̀ ᾰ̓́γκῐστρᾰ tà ánkistra
Vocative	ᾰ̓́γκῐστρον ánkistron	ᾰ̓γκῐ́στρω ankístrō	ᾰ̓́γκῐστρᾰ ánkistra
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: άγκιστρο (ágkistro)

Further reading

• “ἄγκιστρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἄγκιστρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἄγκιστρον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἄγκιστρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄγκιστρον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἄγκιστρον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G44 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • barb idem, page 62.
  • fish-hook idem, page 323.
  • hook idem, page 405.