τέκνον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *téknon, from Proto-Indo-European *teḱ-, perhaps via τίκτω (tíktō, “I bear”). Cognates include Old English þegn (“servant”), Old High German degan and possibly Sanskrit तोक (toka, “offspring, child”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /té.knon/ → /ˈte.knon/ → /ˈte.knon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /té.knon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈte.knon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈte.knon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈte.knon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈte.knon/

Noun

τέκνον • (téknon) n (genitive τέκνου); second declension

1. child (of either gender)
2. descendant
3. young animal

Declension

Second declension of τὸ τέκνον; τοῦ τέκνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ τέκνον tò téknon	τὼ τέκνω tṑ téknō	τᾰ̀ τέκνᾰ tà tékna
Genitive	τοῦ τέκνου toû téknou	τοῖν τέκνοιν toîn téknoin	τῶν τέκνων tôn téknōn
Dative	τῷ τέκνῳ tôi téknōi	τοῖν τέκνοιν toîn téknoin	τοῖς τέκνοις toîs téknois
Accusative	τὸ τέκνον tò téknon	τὼ τέκνω tṑ téknō	τᾰ̀ τέκνᾰ tà tékna
Vocative	τέκνον téknon	τέκνω téknō	τέκνᾰ tékna
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• τίκτω (tíktō)

Descendants

• Greek: τέκνο (tékno)

Further reading

• “τέκνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τέκνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “τέκνον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• τέκνον 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
• τέκνον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “τέκνον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5043 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.
  • affirm idem, page 16.
  • babe idem, page 57.
  • child idem, page 129.
  • offspring idem, page 571.
  • progeny idem, page 653.
  • son idem, page 793.