ἐχῖνος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *hekʰinos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰis (“hedgehog, hedgehog-like animals”). Cognates include Mycenaean Greek 𐀁𐀑𐀜 (e-ki-no), Old Armenian ոզնի (ozni), Proto-Germanic *igilaz, Albanian esh.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /e.kʰîː.nos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /eˈkʰi.nos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /eˈçi.nos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /eˈçi.nos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /eˈçi.nos/
Noun
ἐχῖνος • (ekhînos) m (genitive ἐχῑ́νου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ ἐχῖνος ho ekhînos |
τὼ ἐχῑ́νω tṑ ekhī́nō |
οἱ ἐχῖνοι hoi ekhînoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ἐχῑ́νου toû ekhī́nou |
τοῖν ἐχῑ́νοιν toîn ekhī́noin |
τῶν ἐχῑ́νων tôn ekhī́nōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ἐχῑ́νῳ tôi ekhī́nōi |
τοῖν ἐχῑ́νοιν toîn ekhī́noin |
τοῖς ἐχῑ́νοις toîs ekhī́nois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν ἐχῖνον tòn ekhînon |
τὼ ἐχῑ́νω tṑ ekhī́nō |
τοὺς ἐχῑ́νους toùs ekhī́nous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἐχῖνε ekhîne |
ἐχῑ́νω ekhī́nō |
ἐχῖνοι ekhînoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἐχινόπους (ekhinópous)
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἐχῖνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐχῖνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἐχῖνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- hedgehog idem, page 394.
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