ὑάκινθος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Of Pre-Greek or other Mediterranean substrate origin and possibly related to Latin vaccinium.[1] Note the Pre-Greek suffix -ινθ- (-inth-).[2]

Pronunciation
 

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.

Descendants

References
  1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ὑάκινθος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1523
  2. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2014) “ὑάκινθος”, in Stefan Norbruis, editor, Pre-Greek: Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 70

Further reading
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