Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /makeðnós/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /maceðnós/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /maceðnós/

Adjective

μακεδνός • ‎(makednós) m ‎(feminine μακεδνή, neuter μακεδνόν); first/second declension

1. tall, taper
   • 8th century BC, Ὅμηρος, Ὀδύσσεια, 7.106

     αἱ δ' ἱστοὺς ὑφόωσι καὶ ἠλάκατα στρωφῶσιν ἥμεναι, οἱά τε φύλλα μακεδνῆς αἰγείροιο·

     and they sat, looking down on looms and turning wool; moving like leaves of a tall poplar.

Inflection

References

• μακεδνός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μακεδνός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μακεδνός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «μακεδνός» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «μακεδνός» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Notes:

1. ↑ Frisk, Hjalmar (1970), “μακεδνός”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 163: “μακε-δν-ός (...) ein suffixales -δόν- ist in Tiernamen, sonstigen Appellativen, sowie in Nom. actionis u. a. zu Hause. Als Grundlage dürfte eine mit μακ-ρός, μῆ-κος parallel gehende nominale Bildung gedient haben.”
2. 1 2 Chantraine, Pierre (1968–1980), “μακεδνός”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque (in French), Paris: Klincksieck, pages 659–660: “-δν-o peut représenter un vocalisme zéro d'un suffix -δών-, -δόνος... Dérivés tardifs et rares: μηκεδανός « long » (AP, Nonnus), arrangement de μακεδνός.”
3. ↑ Hesychius of Alexandria, Glossae
4. ↑ 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