ἴτον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ϝίτον (wíton), οἰτόν (oitón), οὐιτόν (ouitón)

Etymology

Furnée connects the word with ὕδνον (húdnon, “truffle”), which has variants too. Furnée is mistaken to assume a prothetic "ὀ-", since "ὀ-" and "οὐ-" just indicate "ϝ-". So we have *wit- and *wid-n-, with a suffix beginning with "n-" and voicing before the nasal, which is typical of Pre-Greek according to Beekes.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /í.ton/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ton/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ton/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ton/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ton/

Noun

ἴτον • (íton) n (genitive ἴτου); second declension

Thracian name for a kind of mushroom

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ῐ̓́τον; τοῦ ῐ̓́του (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ῐ̓́τον tò ĭ́ton	τὼ ῐ̓́τω tṑ ĭ́tō	τᾰ̀ ῐ̓́τᾰ tằ ĭ́tă
Genitive	τοῦ ῐ̓́του toû ĭ́tou	τοῖν ῐ̓́τοιν toîn ĭ́toin	τῶν ῐ̓́των tôn ĭ́tōn
Dative	τῷ ῐ̓́τῳ tôi ĭ́tōi	τοῖν ῐ̓́τοιν toîn ĭ́toin	τοῖς ῐ̓́τοις toîs ĭ́tois
Accusative	τὸ ῐ̓́τον tò ĭ́ton	τὼ ῐ̓́τω tṑ ĭ́tō	τᾰ̀ ῐ̓́τᾰ tằ ĭ́tă
Vocative	ῐ̓́τον ĭ́ton	ῐ̓́τω ĭ́tō	ῐ̓́τᾰ ĭ́tă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“ἴτον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ἴτον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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