μάλδακον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Furnée thinks it is a Semitic loan standing for *μαδαλκον (*madalkon), and compares בְּדֹלַח (bdólakh) and Akkadian 𒁉𒁺𒌨𒄷 (bidurḫu).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mál.da.kon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmal.da.kon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmal.ða.kon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmal.ða.kon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmal.ða.kon/
Noun
μάλδακον • (máldakon) n (genitive μαλδάκου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ μάλδακον tò máldakon |
τὼ μαλδάκω tṑ maldákō |
τᾰ̀ μάλδακᾰ tà máldaka | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ μαλδάκου toû maldákou |
τοῖν μαλδάκοιν toîn maldákoin |
τῶν μαλδάκων tôn maldákōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ μαλδάκῳ tôi maldákōi |
τοῖν μαλδάκοιν toîn maldákoin |
τοῖς μαλδάκοις toîs maldákois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ μάλδακον tò máldakon |
τὼ μαλδάκω tṑ maldákō |
τᾰ̀ μάλδακᾰ tà máldaka | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μάλδακον máldakon |
μαλδάκω maldákō |
μάλδακᾰ máldaka | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: maldacon
Further reading
- μάλδακον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μάλδακον 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
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