ἐγχειρίδιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Nominalised neuter form of ἐγχειρίδιος (enkheirídios, “fitting in the hand”) derived from χείρ (kheír, “hand”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /eŋ.kʰeː.rí.di.on/ → /eɲ.çiˈri.ði.on/ → /eɲ.çiˈri.ði.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /eŋ.kʰeː.rí.di.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /eŋ.kʰiˈri.di.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /eɲ.çiˈri.ði.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /eɲ.çiˈri.ði.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /eɲ.çiˈri.ði.on/

Noun

ἐγχειρῐ́δῐον • (enkheirĭ́dĭon) n (genitive ἐγχειρῐδῐ́ου); second declension

1. a handbook, a manual.
2. a dagger.

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἐγχειρῐ́δῐον tò enkheirĭ́dĭon	τὼ ἐγχειρῐδῐ́ω tṑ enkheirĭdĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ ἐγχειρῐ́δῐᾰ tằ enkheirĭ́dĭă
Genitive	τοῦ ἐγχειρῐδῐ́ου toû enkheirĭdĭ́ou	τοῖν ἐγχειρῐδῐ́οιν toîn enkheirĭdĭ́oin	τῶν ἐγχειρῐδῐ́ων tôn enkheirĭdĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ ἐγχειρῐδῐ́ῳ tôi enkheirĭdĭ́ōi	τοῖν ἐγχειρῐδῐ́οιν toîn enkheirĭdĭ́oin	τοῖς ἐγχειρῐδῐ́οις toîs enkheirĭdĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ ἐγχειρῐ́δῐον tò enkheirĭ́dĭon	τὼ ἐγχειρῐδῐ́ω tṑ enkheirĭdĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ ἐγχειρῐ́δῐᾰ tằ enkheirĭ́dĭă
Vocative	ἐγχειρῐ́δῐον enkheirĭ́dĭon	ἐγχειρῐδῐ́ω enkheirĭdĭ́ō	ἐγχειρῐ́δῐᾰ enkheirĭ́dĭă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Second declension of τὸ ἐγχειρῐ́δῐον; τοῦ ἐγχειρῐδῐ́ου (Attic)

Descendants

• → English: enchiridion
• → Greek: εγχειρίδιο (encheirídio) (learned)
• → Latin: enchiridion

Further reading

• ἐγχειρίδιος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • dagger idem, page 193.
  • dirk idem, page 226.
  • knife idem, page 470.
  • poniard idem, page 626.
• ἐγχειρίδιον, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011