ὑάκινθος

See also: υάκινθος and Ὑάκινθος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Of Pre-Greek or other Mediterranean substrate origin and possibly related to Latin vaccinium. Note the Pre-Greek suffix -ινθ- (-inth-).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hy.á.kin.tʰos/ → /yˈa.cin.θos/ → /iˈa.cin.θos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hy.á.kin.tʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)yˈa.kin.tʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /yˈa.cin.θos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /yˈa.cin.θos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈa.cin.θos/

Noun

ῠ̔ᾰ́κινθος • (huákinthos) m (genitive ῠ̔ᾰκίνθου); second declension

1. The alpine squill (Scilla bifolia)
2. The larkspur (Consolida ajacis, syn. Delphinium ajacis)
3. A certain type of blue
4. Huákinthos, “dark red, purple”, again see Latin vaccinium
5. A blue precious stone, perhaps aquamarine

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ὑάκινθος; τοῦ ὑακίνθου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὑάκινθος ho huákinthos	τὼ ὑακίνθω tṑ huakínthō	οἱ ὑάκινθοι hoi huákinthoi
Genitive	τοῦ ὑακίνθου toû huakínthou	τοῖν ὑακίνθοιν toîn huakínthoin	τῶν ὑακίνθων tôn huakínthōn
Dative	τῷ ὑακίνθῳ tôi huakínthōi	τοῖν ὑακίνθοιν toîn huakínthoin	τοῖς ὑακίνθοις toîs huakínthois
Accusative	τὸν ὑάκινθον tòn huákinthon	τὼ ὑακίνθω tṑ huakínthō	τοὺς ὑακίνθους toùs huakínthous
Vocative	ὑάκινθε huákinthe	ὑακίνθω huakínthō	ὑάκινθοι huákinthoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• Ὑάκινθος (Huákinthos)

Descendants

• Greek: υάκινθος (yákinthos)
• → Classical Syriac: ܝܩܘܢܕܐ (yāqūndāʾ, yaqqūndāʾ), ܝܘܩܢܛܐ (yūqanṭāʾ, “jacinth”)
• → Hebrew: יָקִינְתּוֹן (yakintón)
• → Latin: hyacinthus
  • → Catalan: jacint
  • → English: hyacinth
  • → Old French: jacinte
    • French: jacinthe
    • → Middle English: jacynct, jacinct, jacinctus, jacinkte, jacint, jacyncte, jacyngh, jacynt, jasynkt
      • English: jacinth
      • Scots: jacinct (obsolete)
  • → Swedish: hyacint
    • → Finnish: hyasintti
  • → German: Hyazinthe
    • → Russian: гиаци́нт (giacínt)
  • → Middle High German: jāchant
    • → Polish: jachant
      • → Old East Slavic: ꙗхонт (jaxont)
        • Russian: я́хонт (jáxont)
        • Ukrainian: я́хонт (jáxont)
  • → Hungarian: jácint
  • → Italian: giacinto
  • → Spanish: jacinto
  • → Serbo-Croatian: hijàcint / хија̀цинт
• → Middle Persian: yʾknd (yākand, “ruby”)
  • Persian: یاکند (yâkand)
• → Old Armenian: յակինթ (yakintʻ), յակինթոս (yakintʻos), յակունդ (yakund), յակինդ (yakind); յաթինկոս (yatʻinkos) — misspelling
  • Middle Armenian: յակինթ (yakintʻ)
  • → Armenian: հակինթ (hakintʻ)
  • → Georgian: იაკინთი (iaḳinti)
• → Old Church Slavonic: акинтъ (akintŭ), акунтъ (akuntŭ), ꙗкинфъ (jakinfŭ)
• → Parthian:

  Manichaean script: 𐫏𐫀𐫐𐫇𐫗𐫅 (yʾkwnd /⁠yākund⁠/)

  • → Old Armenian: յակունդ (yakund)
    • Middle Armenian: յակունդ (yakund)
    • → Georgian: იაგუნდი (iagundi)
• → Sogdian: [script needed] (yγwth /⁠yaγūt⁠/, “ruby”)
  • → Arabic: يَاقُوت (yāqūt)
    • → Afar: yaagút
    • → Bengali: ইয়াকুত (iẏakut), এয়াকুত (eẏakut)
    • → Swahili: yakuti
    • → Northern Kurdish: yaqût
    • → Middle Armenian: եաղութ (eaġutʻ)
    • → Persian: یاقوت (yâqut)
      • → Ottoman Turkish: یاقوت (yakut)
        • Turkish: yakut
        • → Albanian: jakut
        • → Romanian: iacut
        • → Serbo-Croatian: jàkut／ја̀кут
      • → Hindustani:

        Hindi: याक़ूत (yāqūt)

        Urdu: یَاقُوت (yāqūt)

      • → Uyghur: ياقۇت (yaqut)
      • → Uzbek: yoqut

Further reading

• “ὑάκινθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὑάκινθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὑάκινθος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὑάκινθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ὑάκινθος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G5192 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible