ἄκινος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἄκονος (ákonos)

Etymology

The vowel interchange, though rare, may point to a Pre-Greek word.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /á.ki.nos/ → /ˈa.ci.nos/ → /ˈa.ci.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /á.ki.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ki.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ci.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ci.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ci.nos/

Noun

ἄκῐνος • (ákinos) m (genitive ἀκῐ́νου); second declension

1. wild basil (Acinos rotundifolius)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ἄκῐνος; τοῦ ἀκῐ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἄκῐνος ho ákinos	τὼ ἀκῐ́νω tṑ akínō	οἱ ἄκῐνοι hoi ákinoi
Genitive	τοῦ ἀκῐ́νου toû akínou	τοῖν ἀκῐ́νοιν toîn akínoin	τῶν ἀκῐ́νων tôn akínōn
Dative	τῷ ἀκῐ́νῳ tôi akínōi	τοῖν ἀκῐ́νοιν toîn akínoin	τοῖς ἀκῐ́νοις toîs akínois
Accusative	τὸν ἄκῐνον tòn ákinon	τὼ ἀκῐ́νω tṑ akínō	τοὺς ἀκῐ́νους toùs akínous
Vocative	ἄκῐνε ákine	ἀκῐ́νω akínō	ἄκῐνοι ákinoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀκίνινος (akíninos)

Descendants

• → Translingual: Acinos

Further reading

• “ἄκινος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄκινος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄκινος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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