ὄνθος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unexplained.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ón.tʰos/ → /ˈon.θos/ → /ˈon.θos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ón.tʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈon.tʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈon.θos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈon.θos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈon.θos/

Noun

ὄνθος • (ónthos) m or f (genitive ὄνθου); second declension

1. dung of animals

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ, ἡ ὄνθος; τοῦ, τῆς ὄνθου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ ὄνθος ho, hē ónthos	τὼ ὄνθω tṑ ónthō	οἱ, αἱ ὄνθοι hoi, hai ónthoi
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς ὄνθου toû, tês ónthou	τοῖν ὄνθοιν toîn ónthoin	τῶν ὄνθων tôn ónthōn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ ὄνθῳ tôi, têi ónthōi	τοῖν ὄνθοιν toîn ónthoin	τοῖς, ταῖς ὄνθοις toîs, taîs ónthois
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν ὄνθον tòn, tḕn ónthon	τὼ ὄνθω tṑ ónthō	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς ὄνθους toùs, tā̀s ónthous
Vocative	ὄνθε ónthe	ὄνθω ónthō	ὄνθοι ónthoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὀνθολόγος (onthológos)
• ὀνθοφόρος (onthophóros)

Further reading

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