ἄσπληνον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Perhaps from ᾰ̓- (ă-, “un-”) +‎ σπλήν (splḗn, “spleen”), because this plant would cure anthrax.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ás.plɛː.non/ → /ˈas.pli.non/ → /ˈas.pli.non/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ás.plɛː.non/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈas.ple̝.non/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈas.pli.non/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈas.pli.non/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈas.pli.non/

Noun

ἄσπληνον • (ásplēnon) n (genitive ἀσπλήνου); second declension

1. miltwaste (Asplenium ceterach)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ἄσπληνον; τοῦ ἀσπλήνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἄσπληνον tò ásplēnon	τὼ ἀσπλήνω tṑ asplḗnō	τᾰ̀ ἄσπληνᾰ tằ ásplēnă
Genitive	τοῦ ἀσπλήνου toû asplḗnou	τοῖν ἀσπλήνοιν toîn asplḗnoin	τῶν ἀσπλήνων tôn asplḗnōn
Dative	τῷ ἀσπλήνῳ tôi asplḗnōi	τοῖν ἀσπλήνοιν toîn asplḗnoin	τοῖς ἀσπλήνοις toîs asplḗnois
Accusative	τὸ ἄσπληνον tò ásplēnon	τὼ ἀσπλήνω tṑ asplḗnō	τᾰ̀ ἄσπληνᾰ tằ ásplēnă
Vocative	ἄσπληνον ásplēnon	ἀσπλήνω asplḗnō	ἄσπληνᾰ ásplēnă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: asplenum
• Translingual: Asplenium

Further reading

• “ἄσπληνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄσπληνον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄσπληνον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• 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