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ἀδήν
ἀδήν
See also: ἅδην
Ancient Greek
Noun
ἀδήν • (adḗn) f, m (genitive ἀδένος); third declension
Usage notes
- Originally feminine, later masculine.
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ, ἡ ἀδήν | τὼ ἀδένε | οἱ, αἱ ἀδένες | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ, τῆς ἀδένος | τοῖν ἀδένοιν | τῶν ἀδένων | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ, τῇ ἀδένῐ | τοῖν ἀδένοιν | τοῖς, ταῖς ἀδέσῐ | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν, τὴν ἀδένᾰ | τὼ ἀδένε | τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς ἀδένᾰς | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἀδήν | ἀδένε | ἀδένες | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Descendants
- English: adeno-
- Greek: αδένας (adénas)
- Latin: polyadenus
References
- ἀδήν in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- «ἀδήν» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- «ἀδήν» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
- ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἀδήν”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 21
- ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “inguen, -inis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 303-304