ὑγιεινός

See also: υγιεινός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὑγιής (hugiḗs) +‎ -εινός (-einós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hy.ɡi.eː.nós/ → /y.ʝi.iˈnos/ → /i.ʝi.iˈnos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hy.ɡi.eː.nós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)y.ɡi.iˈnos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /y.ʝi.iˈnos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /y.ʝi.iˈnos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.ʝi.iˈnos/

Adjective

ὑγῐεινός • (hugieinós) m (feminine ὑγῐεινή, neuter ὑγῐεινόν); first/second declension

1. good for the health, wholesome
2. sound, healthy
3. (nominalized, neuter) health

Declension

First and second declension of ὑ̆γῐεινός; ὑ̆γῐεινή; ὑ̆γῐεινόν (Attic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		ὑ̆γῐεινός hugieinós	ὑ̆γῐεινή hugieinḗ	ὑ̆γῐεινόν hugieinón		ὑ̆γῐεινώ hugieinṓ	ὑ̆γῐεινᾱ́ hugieinā́	ὑ̆γῐεινώ hugieinṓ		ὑ̆γῐεινοί hugieinoí	ὑ̆γῐειναί hugieinaí	ὑ̆γῐεινᾰ́ hugieiná
Genitive		ὑ̆γῐεινοῦ hugieinoû	ὑ̆γῐεινῆς hugieinês	ὑ̆γῐεινοῦ hugieinoû		ὑ̆γῐεινοῖν hugieinoîn	ὑ̆γῐειναῖν hugieinaîn	ὑ̆γῐεινοῖν hugieinoîn		ὑ̆γῐεινῶν hugieinôn	ὑ̆γῐεινῶν hugieinôn	ὑ̆γῐεινῶν hugieinôn
Dative		ὑ̆γῐεινῷ hugieinôi	ὑ̆γῐεινῇ hugieinêi	ὑ̆γῐεινῷ hugieinôi		ὑ̆γῐεινοῖν hugieinoîn	ὑ̆γῐειναῖν hugieinaîn	ὑ̆γῐεινοῖν hugieinoîn		ὑ̆γῐεινοῖς hugieinoîs	ὑ̆γῐειναῖς hugieinaîs	ὑ̆γῐεινοῖς hugieinoîs
Accusative		ὑ̆γῐεινόν hugieinón	ὑ̆γῐεινήν hugieinḗn	ὑ̆γῐεινόν hugieinón		ὑ̆γῐεινώ hugieinṓ	ὑ̆γῐεινᾱ́ hugieinā́	ὑ̆γῐεινώ hugieinṓ		ὑ̆γῐεινούς hugieinoús	ὑ̆γῐεινᾱ́ς hugieinā́s	ὑ̆γῐεινᾰ́ hugieiná
Vocative		ὑ̆γῐεινέ hugieiné	ὑ̆γῐεινή hugieinḗ	ὑ̆γῐεινόν hugieinón		ὑ̆γῐεινώ hugieinṓ	ὑ̆γῐεινᾱ́ hugieinā́	ὑ̆γῐεινώ hugieinṓ		ὑ̆γῐεινοί hugieinoí	ὑ̆γῐειναί hugieinaí	ὑ̆γῐεινᾰ́ hugieiná
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		ὑ̆γῐεινῶς hugieinôs				ὑ̆γῐεινότερος hugieinóteros				ὑ̆γῐεινότᾰτος hugieinótatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: υγιεινός (ygieinós)

From the feminine ὑγῐεινή (hugieinḗ):

• → Late Latin: hygiēna
  • → Catalan: higiene (learned)
  • → Czech: hygiena
  • → Dutch: hygiëne
  • → English: hygiene
  • → Finnish: hygienia
  • → French: hygiène
  • → German: Hygiene
  • → Italian: igiene (learned)
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: hygiene
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: hygiene
  • → Piedmontese: igiene (learned)
  • → Polish: higiena
  • → Portuguese: higiene (learned)
  • → Spanish: higiene (learned)
• → Russian: гигие́на (gigijéna), гигіе́на (gigijéna) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
  • → Azerbaijani: gigiyena
  • → Kazakh: гигиена (gigiena)
  • → Kyrgyz: гигиена (gigiyena)
  • → Tajik: гигиена (gigiyena)
  • → Tatar: гигиена (gigiyena)
  • → Turkmen: gigiýena
  • → Uzbek: gigiyena
• → Ukrainian: гігіє́на (hihijéna)

Further reading

• ὑγιεινός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “ὑγιεινός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “ὑγιεινός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὑγιεινός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bracing idem, page 92.
  • healthy idem, page 391.
  • hygienic idem, page 412.
  • salubrious idem, page 732.
  • sanitary idem, page 733.
  • wholesome idem, page 977.