ὀθόννα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The word recalls ὀθόνη (othónē, “fine linen”), and hardly accidentally. According to Dioscorides it originates in Egypt, while according to Pliny it is Syrian. Either way, it is probably a Semitic word.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /o.tʰón.na/ → /oˈθon.na/ → /oˈθo.na/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /o.tʰón.na/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /oˈtʰon.na/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /oˈθon.na/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /oˈθon.na/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /oˈθo.na/

Noun

ὀθόννᾰ • (othónnă) f (genitive ὀθόννης); first declension

1. greater celandine (Chelidonium majus)

   Synonyms: ἐλῠ́δρῐον (elŭ́drĭon), χελῑδόνῐον (khelīdónĭon)

2. its juice, but also the juice of other plants
3. kind of Egyptian stone

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ὀθόννᾰ; τῆς ὀθόννης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὀθόννᾰ hē othónnă	τὼ ὀθόννᾱ tṑ othónnā	αἱ ὀθόνναι hai othónnai
Genitive	τῆς ὀθόννης tês othónnēs	τοῖν ὀθόνναιν toîn othónnain	τῶν ὀθοννῶν tôn othonnôn
Dative	τῇ ὀθόννῃ têi othónnēi	τοῖν ὀθόνναιν toîn othónnain	ταῖς ὀθόνναις taîs othónnais
Accusative	τὴν ὀθόννᾰν tḕn othónnăn	τὼ ὀθόννᾱ tṑ othónnā	τᾱ̀ς ὀθόννᾱς tā̀s othónnās
Vocative	ὀθόννᾰ othónnă	ὀθόννᾱ othónnā	ὀθόνναι othónnai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: othonna
  • → Translingual: Othonna

Further reading

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