ἠλακατήν

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɛː.la.ka.tɛ̌ːn/ → /i.la.kaˈtin/ → /i.la.kaˈtin/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɛː.la.ka.tɛ̌ːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e̝.la.kaˈte̝n/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /i.la.kaˈtin/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /i.la.kaˈtin/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.la.kaˈtin/

Noun

ἠλᾰκᾰτήν • (ēlakatḗn) m (genitive ἠλᾰκᾰτῆνος); third declension

1. (usually in the plural) a large sea-fish, probably a kind of tunny
   • 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, Kol.Fr. 7
   • 400 BCE – 300 BCE, Mnesimachus, Collected Works 4.35
   • Mnaseas 33
   • AD 2nd C., Aelius Herodianus (aut.), Augustus Lentz (ed.), Περὶ καθολικῆς προσῳδίας in Grammatici Graeci III: Herodiani technici reliquiae I: Praefationem et Herodiani Prosodiam catholicam continens (1867), bk i, p. 16, ll. 6–8:

     Τὰ εἰς ην ὑπὲρ δύο συλλαβὰς χαίρουσι τῇ ὀξείᾳ οἷον ἀτταγήν, κορδυλήν, μαριθήν, δοθιήν, ἠλακατήν ὄνομα ἰχθύος κητώδους καὶ κύριον.

     Tà eis ēn hupèr dúo sullabàs khaírousi têi oxeíāi hoîon attagḗn, kordulḗn, marithḗn, dothiḗn, ēlakatḗn ónoma ikhthúos kētṓdous kaì kúrion.

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Declension

Third declension of ὁ ἠλᾰκᾰτήν; τοῦ ἠλᾰκᾰτῆνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἠλᾰκᾰτήν ho ēlakatḗn	τὼ ἠλᾰκᾰτῆνε tṑ ēlakatêne	οἱ ἠλᾰκᾰτῆνες hoi ēlakatênes
Genitive	τοῦ ἠλᾰκᾰτῆνος toû ēlakatênos	τοῖν ἠλᾰκᾰτήνοιν toîn ēlakatḗnoin	τῶν ἠλᾰκᾰτήνων tôn ēlakatḗnōn
Dative	τῷ ἠλᾰκᾰτῆνῐ tôi ēlakatêni	τοῖν ἠλᾰκᾰτήνοιν toîn ēlakatḗnoin	τοῖς ἠλᾰκᾰτῆσῐ / ἠλᾰκᾰτῆσῐν toîs ēlakatêsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν ἠλᾰκᾰτῆνᾰ tòn ēlakatêna	τὼ ἠλᾰκᾰτῆνε tṑ ēlakatêne	τοὺς ἠλᾰκᾰτῆνᾰς toùs ēlakatênas
Vocative	ἠλᾰκᾰτήν ēlakatḗn	ἠλᾰκᾰτῆνε ēlakatêne	ἠλᾰκᾰτῆνες ēlakatênes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: ēlacatēn

References

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