νᾶνος

See also: νάνος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• νᾰ́ννος (nánnos)

Etymology

Possibly onomatopoeic, though the logic behind the formation, as well as putative source if borrowed, is unclear.^[1] Compare perhaps English neener (playground insult).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /nâː.nos/ → /ˈna.nos/ → /ˈna.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /nâː.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈna.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈna.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈna.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈna.nos/

Noun

νᾶνος • (nânos) m (genitive νᾱ́νου); second declension

1. dwarf

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ νᾶνος ho nânos	τὼ νᾱ́νω tṑ nā́nō	οἱ νᾶνοι hoi nânoi
Genitive	τοῦ νᾱ́νου toû nā́nou	τοῖν νᾱ́νοιν toîn nā́noin	τῶν νᾱ́νων tôn nā́nōn
Dative	τῷ νᾱ́νῳ tôi nā́nōi	τοῖν νᾱ́νοιν toîn nā́noin	τοῖς νᾱ́νοις toîs nā́nois
Accusative	τὸν νᾶνον tòn nânon	τὼ νᾱ́νω tṑ nā́nō	τοὺς νᾱ́νους toùs nā́nous
Vocative	νᾶνε nâne	νᾱ́νω nā́nō	νᾶνοι nânoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Second declension of ὁ νᾶνος; τοῦ νᾱ́νου (Attic)

Derived terms

• νανίον (naníon)
• νανοφυής (nanophuḗs)
• νανώδης (nanṓdēs)

Descendants

• Greek: νάνος (nános)
• → Hebrew: נַנָּס
• → Latin: nānus
  • Asturian: nanu
  • Catalan: nan
  • → English: nano-
  • French: nain
  • Galician: anano
  • Italian: nano
  • Portuguese: anão
  • Romanian: nan
  • Sardinian: nanu
  • Sicilian: nanu
  • Spanish: enano

References

1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “νᾶνος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 995

Further reading

• “νᾶνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “νᾶνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• νᾶνος 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • dwarf idem, page 257.
  • pigmy idem, page 612.