ῥυκάνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The formation is similar to σκαπάνη (skapánē), δρεπάνη (drepánē) and other instrument names, but the root is unknown. The word has been connected to Sanskrit स्रुच् (sruc, “sort of large wooden ladle”), but this fails to account for the meaning. A Pre-Greek origin is certainly a possibility for this word.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥y.ká.nɛː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ryˈka.ne̝/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ryˈka.ni/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ryˈka.ni/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /riˈka.ni/

Noun

ῥῠκᾰ́νη • (rhŭkắnē) f (genitive ῥῠκᾰ́νης); first declension

plane, a tool for smoothing wood

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ῥῠκᾰ́νη; τῆς ῥῠκᾰ́νης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῥῠκᾰ́νη hē rhŭkắnē	τὼ ῥῠκᾰ́νᾱ tṑ rhŭkắnā	αἱ ῥῠκᾰ́ναι hai rhŭkắnai
Genitive	τῆς ῥῠκᾰ́νης tês rhŭkắnēs	τοῖν ῥῠκᾰ́ναιν toîn rhŭkắnain	τῶν ῥῠκᾰνῶν tôn rhŭkănôn
Dative	τῇ ῥῠκᾰ́νῃ têi rhŭkắnēi	τοῖν ῥῠκᾰ́ναιν toîn rhŭkắnain	ταῖς ῥῠκᾰ́ναις taîs rhŭkắnais
Accusative	τὴν ῥῠκᾰ́νην tḕn rhŭkắnēn	τὼ ῥῠκᾰ́νᾱ tṑ rhŭkắnā	τᾱ̀ς ῥῠκᾰ́νᾱς tā̀s rhŭkắnās
Vocative	ῥῠκᾰ́νη rhŭkắnē	ῥῠκᾰ́νᾱ rhŭkắnā	ῥῠκᾰ́ναι rhŭkắnai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ῥυκάνησις (rhukánēsis)
ῥυκανίζω (rhukanízō)

Descendants

→ Latin: runcīna

“ῥυκάνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ῥυκάνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ῥυκάνη 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