ξόανον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ξύω (xúō, “to carve, smooth”). Compare ξύλον (xúlon, “wood”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ksó.a.non/ → /ˈkso.a.non/ → /ˈkso.a.non/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ksó.a.non/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkso.a.non/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkso.a.non/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkso.a.non/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkso.a.non/

Noun

ξόᾰνον • (xóanon) n (genitive ξοᾰ́νου); second declension

1. an image of carved wood, an image, statue, especially of a god; xoanon
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 5.3.12
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 1403
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1359
   • 415 BCE, Euripides, The Trojan Women 525
   • 415 BCE, Euripides, The Trojan Women 1074
   • Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.17.2
2. a musical instrument
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 238

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ξόᾰνον; τοῦ ξοᾰ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ξόᾰνον tò xóanon	τὼ ξοᾰ́νω tṑ xoánō	τᾰ̀ ξόᾰνᾰ tà xóana
Genitive	τοῦ ξοᾰ́νου toû xoánou	τοῖν ξοᾰ́νοιν toîn xoánoin	τῶν ξοᾰ́νων tôn xoánōn
Dative	τῷ ξοᾰ́νῳ tôi xoánōi	τοῖν ξοᾰ́νοιν toîn xoánoin	τοῖς ξοᾰ́νοις toîs xoánois
Accusative	τὸ ξόᾰνον tò xóanon	τὼ ξοᾰ́νω tṑ xoánō	τᾰ̀ ξόᾰνᾰ tà xóana
Vocative	ξόᾰνον xóanon	ξοᾰ́νω xoánō	ξόᾰνᾰ xóana
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• English: xoanon
• Greek: ξόανο (xóano)

References

• “ξόανον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ξόανον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ξόανον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • image idem, page 416.
  • statue idem, page 813.