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κανών
κανών
Ancient Greek
Noun
κᾰνών • (kanṓn) m (genitive κᾰνόνος); third declension
- rod, pole, bar
- rods used in shields
- type of rod used in weaving
- measuring rod, carpenter's rule, plumb line, level
- (music) monochord
- something to judge by, rule, norm, general principle
- model, paradigm
- tax assessment, tax, tariff
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ κᾰνών | τὼ κᾰνόνε | οἱ κᾰνόνες | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κᾰνόνος | τοῖν κᾰνόνοιν | τῶν κᾰνόνων | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κᾰνόνῐ | τοῖν κᾰνόνοιν | τοῖς κᾰνόσῐ | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν κᾰνόνᾰ | τὼ κᾰνόνε | τοὺς κᾰνόνᾰς | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κᾰνών | κᾰνόνε | κᾰνόνες | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Derived terms
- κᾰνονῐ́ζω (kanonízō)
Descendants
- Arabic: قَانُون (qānūn)
- Aramaic:
- Georgian: კანონი (ḳanoni)
- Greek: κανόνας (kanónas)
- Hebrew: קָנוֹן (qānôn)
- Latin: canon
- English canon
- Old Armenian: կանոն (kanon), քանոն (kʿanon)
- Romanian: canon
- Russian: канон (kanon), канун (kanun)
References
- κᾰνών in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κανών in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κανών in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- «κανών» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- «κανών» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “G2583”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- carpenter idem, page 114.
- criterion idem, page 184.
- measure idem, page 520.
- measuring rod idem, page 521.
- plumb-line idem, page 621.
- plummet idem, page 622.
- principle idem, page 641.
- rod idem, page 720.
- rule idem, page 725.
- standard idem, page 810.
- test idem, page 863.
- yard-measure idem, page 995.
- 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