ἔχιδνα

See also: έχιδνα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἔχις (ékhis, “snake”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /é.kʰi.dna/ → /ˈe.çi.ðna/ → /ˈe.çi.ðna/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /é.kʰi.dna/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈe.kʰi.dna/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈe.çi.ðna/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈe.çi.ðna/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈe.çi.ðna/

Noun

ἔχιδνᾰ • (ékhidna) f (genitive ἐχίδνης); first declension

1. snake (traditionally held as a poisonous snake, viper, but perhaps also a constrictor)
2. (figuratively) a treacherous person

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἔχιδνᾰ; τῆς ἐχίδνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἔχιδνᾰ hē ékhidna	τὼ ἐχίδνᾱ tṑ ekhídnā	αἱ ἔχιδναι hai ékhidnai
Genitive	τῆς ἐχίδνης tês ekhídnēs	τοῖν ἐχίδναιν toîn ekhídnain	τῶν ἐχιδνῶν tôn ekhidnôn
Dative	τῇ ἐχίδνῃ têi ekhídnēi	τοῖν ἐχίδναιν toîn ekhídnain	ταῖς ἐχίδναις taîs ekhídnais
Accusative	τὴν ἔχιδνᾰν tḕn ékhidnan	τὼ ἐχίδνᾱ tṑ ekhídnā	τᾱ̀ς ἐχίδνᾱς tā̀s ekhídnās
Vocative	ἔχιδνᾰ ékhidna	ἐχίδνᾱ ekhídnā	ἔχιδναι ékhidnai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܐܟܕܢܐ (ʾāḵeḏnā)

• English: echidna
• Greek: έχιδνα (échidna)
• Latin: echidna
• Russian: ехи́дна (jexídna)

References

• “ἔχιδνα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἔχιδνα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἔχιδνα 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
• G2191 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • serpent idem, page 755.
  • snake idem, page 788.
  • viper idem, page 954.