ὕπνον

Ancient Greek

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hý.pnon/ → /ˈy.pnon/ → /ˈi.pnon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hý.pnon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)y.pnon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.pnon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.pnon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.pnon/

Noun

ὕπνον • (húpnon) n (genitive ὕπνου); second declension

1. kind of lichen

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ῠ̔́πνον; τοῦ ῠ̔́πνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ῠ̔́πνον tò hŭ́pnon	τὼ ῠ̔́πνω tṑ hŭ́pnō	τᾰ̀ ῠ̔́πνᾰ tằ hŭ́pnă
Genitive	τοῦ ῠ̔́πνου toû hŭ́pnou	τοῖν ῠ̔́πνοιν toîn hŭ́pnoin	τῶν ῠ̔́πνων tôn hŭ́pnōn
Dative	τῷ ῠ̔́πνῳ tôi hŭ́pnōi	τοῖν ῠ̔́πνοιν toîn hŭ́pnoin	τοῖς ῠ̔́πνοις toîs hŭ́pnois
Accusative	τὸ ῠ̔́πνον tò hŭ́pnon	τὼ ῠ̔́πνω tṑ hŭ́pnō	τᾰ̀ ῠ̔́πνᾰ tằ hŭ́pnă
Vocative	ῠ̔́πνον hŭ́pnon	ῠ̔́πνω hŭ́pnō	ῠ̔́πνᾰ hŭ́pnă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hý.pnon/ → /ˈy.pnon/ → /ˈi.pnon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hý.pnon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)y.pnon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.pnon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.pnon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.pnon/

Noun

ὕπνον • (húpnon)

1. accusative singular of ὕπνος (húpnos)

Further reading

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