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 • (enkheirídion) n (genitive ἐγχειρῐδῐ́ου); second declension

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

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ἐγχειρῐ́δῐον; τοῦ ἐγχειρῐδῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἐγχειρῐ́δῐον tò enkheirídion	τὼ ἐγχειρῐδῐ́ω tṑ enkheiridíō	τᾰ̀ ἐγχειρῐ́δῐᾰ tà enkheirídia
Genitive	τοῦ ἐγχειρῐδῐ́ου toû enkheiridíou	τοῖν ἐγχειρῐδῐ́οιν toîn enkheiridíoin	τῶν ἐγχειρῐδῐ́ων tôn enkheiridíōn
Dative	τῷ ἐγχειρῐδῐ́ῳ tôi enkheiridíōi	τοῖν ἐγχειρῐδῐ́οιν toîn enkheiridíoin	τοῖς ἐγχειρῐδῐ́οις toîs enkheiridíois
Accusative	τὸ ἐγχειρῐ́δῐον tò enkheirídion	τὼ ἐγχειρῐδῐ́ω tṑ enkheiridíō	τᾰ̀ ἐγχειρῐ́δῐᾰ tà enkheirídia
Vocative	ἐγχειρῐ́δῐον enkheirídion	ἐγχειρῐδῐ́ω enkheiridíō	ἐγχειρῐ́δῐᾰ enkheirídia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

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

Further reading

• ἐγχειρίδιον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], 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] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011