ἱκανός

See also: ικανός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἱκνέομαι (hiknéomai, “to be appropriate”) +‎ -νος (-nos).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hi.ka.nós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)i.kaˈnos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /i.kaˈnos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /i.kaˈnos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.kaˈnos/

Adjective

ῐ̔κᾰνός • (hikanós) m (feminine ῐ̔κᾰνή, neuter ῐ̔κᾰνόν); first/second declension

becoming, befitting, sufficient
1. (of people) competent, strong or skillful enough
  - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.45
  - 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Against the Stepmother for Poisoning 15
  - 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.9
  - 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Funeral Oration 42
  - 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.4.12
  - 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Constitution of Sparta 8.4
  - 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 277A
  - 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 875A
  - 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 25.3.6
  - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.4
  - 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.6.15
  - 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 467D
  - 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, On Horsemanship 2.1
  - 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 322C
  - 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 377
  - 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Panathenaicus 132
  - 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Helen 38
  - 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Lysis 204A
  - 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 327C
  - 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 20.3
  - 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Ruth 1.21
2. (of things) adequate, enough, considerable
  - 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 554
  - 425 BCE, Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1047
  - 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.77
  - 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hiero 4.9
  - 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 371E
  - 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 322B
  - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.121
  - 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.2
  - 415 BCE, Euripides, The Trojan Women 996
  - 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 373D
  - 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, First Tetralogy 2.2
  - 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, First Tetralogy 1.6
  - 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 354
  - 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Simon 10
  - 4th century BC, Isaeus, Menecles 7
  1. satisfactory
    - 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 179B
    - 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Hippias Minor 369C
    - 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 32.3.13
    - 3rd century CE, Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 4.50
    - The Gospel of Mark 15:15
    - 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 11.25.1
    - 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 11.40

Inflection

First and second declension of ῐ̔κᾰνός; ῐ̔κᾰνή; ῐ̔κᾰνόν (Attic)

Number	Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ῐ̔κᾰνός hikanós	ῐ̔κᾰνή hikanḗ	ῐ̔κᾰνόν hikanón	ῐ̔κᾰνώ hikanṓ	ῐ̔κᾰνᾱ́ hikanā́	ῐ̔κᾰνώ hikanṓ	ῐ̔κᾰνοί hikanoí	ῐ̔κᾰναί hikanaí	ῐ̔κᾰνᾰ́ hikaná
Genitive	ῐ̔κᾰνοῦ hikanoû	ῐ̔κᾰνῆς hikanês	ῐ̔κᾰνοῦ hikanoû	ῐ̔κᾰνοῖν hikanoîn	ῐ̔κᾰναῖν hikanaîn	ῐ̔κᾰνοῖν hikanoîn	ῐ̔κᾰνῶν hikanôn	ῐ̔κᾰνῶν hikanôn	ῐ̔κᾰνῶν hikanôn
Dative	ῐ̔κᾰνῷ hikanôi	ῐ̔κᾰνῇ hikanêi	ῐ̔κᾰνῷ hikanôi	ῐ̔κᾰνοῖν hikanoîn	ῐ̔κᾰναῖν hikanaîn	ῐ̔κᾰνοῖν hikanoîn	ῐ̔κᾰνοῖς hikanoîs	ῐ̔κᾰναῖς hikanaîs	ῐ̔κᾰνοῖς hikanoîs
Accusative	ῐ̔κᾰνόν hikanón	ῐ̔κᾰνήν hikanḗn	ῐ̔κᾰνόν hikanón	ῐ̔κᾰνώ hikanṓ	ῐ̔κᾰνᾱ́ hikanā́	ῐ̔κᾰνώ hikanṓ	ῐ̔κᾰνούς hikanoús	ῐ̔κᾰνᾱ́ς hikanā́s	ῐ̔κᾰνᾰ́ hikaná
Vocative	ῐ̔κᾰνέ hikané	ῐ̔κᾰνή hikanḗ	ῐ̔κᾰνόν hikanón	ῐ̔κᾰνώ hikanṓ	ῐ̔κᾰνᾱ́ hikanā́	ῐ̔κᾰνώ hikanṓ	ῐ̔κᾰνοί hikanoí	ῐ̔κᾰναί hikanaí	ῐ̔κᾰνᾰ́ hikaná
Derived forms	Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
Derived forms	ῐ̔κᾰνῶς hikanôs			ῐ̔κᾰνώτερος hikanṓteros			ῐ̔κᾰνώτᾰτος hikanṓtatos
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ἱκανόω (hikanóō)
ῐ̔κᾰνῶς (hikanôs)

Descendants

Coptic: ϩⲓⲕⲁⲛⲟⲥ (hikanos)
Greek: ικανός (ikanós)

References

“ἱκανός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἱκανός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ἱκανός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
G2425 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.
- able idem, page 2.
- adequate idem, page 11.
- capable idem, page 111.
- competent idem, page 151.
- enough idem, page 276.
- equal idem, page 280.
- fit idem, page 323.
- qualified idem, page 663.
- sufficient idem, page 835.