δεῖπνον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• δεῖπνος (deîpnos)

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps of Pre-Greek origin. Furnée compares δάπτω (dáptō), Latin daps and damnum. Kluge compares Proto-Germanic *tēwō (“to regular, arrange (a meal)”), source of Gothic 𐍄𐌴𐍅𐌰 (tēwa), German Zeche, from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (“to fit”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /dêː.pnon/ → /ˈði.pnon/ → /ˈði.pnon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /dêː.pnon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈdi.pnon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈði.pnon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈði.pnon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈði.pnon/

Noun

δεῖπνον • (deîpnon) n (genitive δείπνου); second declension

1. meal
2. (in general) food, provender

Declension

Second declension of τὸ δεῖπνον; τοῦ δείπνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ δεῖπνον tò deîpnon	τὼ δείπνω tṑ deípnō	τᾰ̀ δεῖπνᾰ tà deîpna
Genitive	τοῦ δείπνου toû deípnou	τοῖν δείπνοιν toîn deípnoin	τῶν δείπνων tôn deípnōn
Dative	τῷ δείπνῳ tôi deípnōi	τοῖν δείπνοιν toîn deípnoin	τοῖς δείπνοις toîs deípnois
Accusative	τὸ δεῖπνον tò deîpnon	τὼ δείπνω tṑ deípnō	τᾰ̀ δεῖπνᾰ tà deîpna
Vocative	δεῖπνον deîpnon	δείπνω deípnō	δεῖπνᾰ deîpna
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἄδειπνος (ádeipnos)
• ἀριστόδειπνον (aristódeipnon)
• δειπνάριον (deipnárion)
• δειπνεύς (deipneús)
• δειπνεύω (deipneúō)
• δειπνέω (deipnéō)
• δείπνηστος (deípnēstos)
• δειπνηστύς (deipnēstús)
• δειπνητήριον (deipnētḗrion)
• δειπνητής (deipnētḗs)
• δειπνητικός (deipnētikós)
• δειπνητορία (deipnētoría)
• δειπνίζω (deipnízō)
• δειπνίον (deipníon)
• δειπνιστήριον (deipnistḗrion)
• δειπνιστός (deipnistós)
• δειπνῖτις (deipnîtis)
• δειπνοθήρας (deipnothḗras)
• δειπνοκλήτωρ (deipnoklḗtōr)
• δειπνοκρίτης (deipnokrítēs)
• δειπνολογία (deipnología)
• δειπνολόχος (deipnolókhos)
• δειπνομανής (deipnomanḗs)
• δειπνοπίθηκος (deipnopíthēkos)
• δειπνοποιέω (deipnopoiéō)
• δειπνοποιΐα (deipnopoiḯa)
• δειπνοποιός (deipnopoiós)
• δειπνοσοφιστής (deipnosophistḗs)
• δειπνοσύνη (deipnosúnē)
• δειπνοφορία (deipnophoría)
• δειπνοφόρος (deipnophóros)
• λογόδειπνον (logódeipnon)
• περίδειπνον (perídeipnon)
• σύνδειπνος (súndeipnos)
• φιλόδειπνος (philódeipnos)
• ψευδόδειπνον (pseudódeipnon)

 

Descendants

• Greek: δείπνο (deípno)

Further reading

• “δεῖπνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “δεῖπνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “δεῖπνον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• δεῖπνον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• δεῖπνον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• δεῖπνον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “δεῖπνον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • dinner idem, page 225.
  • feast idem, page 312.
  • meal idem, page 519.
  • repast idem, page 695.
• 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, →ISBN