"ὄκνος" meaning in Ancient Greek

See ὄκνος in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ó.knos/, /ˈo.knos/, /ˈo.knos/, /ó.knos/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /ˈo.knos/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /ˈo.knos/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /ˈo.knos/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /ˈo.knos/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱenk- (“to hang, tarry”), shared with Latin cunctor (“I delay, hold up”). Etymology templates: {{unc|grc}} Uncertain, {{der|grc|ine-pro|*ḱenk-||to hang, tarry}} Proto-Indo-European *ḱenk- (“to hang, tarry”), {{cog|la|cunctor||I delay, hold up}} Latin cunctor (“I delay, hold up”) Head templates: {{grc-noun|ὄκνου|m|second}} ὄκνος • (óknos) m (genitive ὄκνου); second declension Inflection templates: {{grc-decl|ὄκνος|ου}} Forms: óknos [romanization], ὄκνου [genitive], Attic declension-2 [table-tags], ὁ ὄκνος [nominative, singular], τὼ ὄκνω [dual, nominative], οἱ ὄκνοι [nominative, plural], τοῦ ὄκνου [genitive, singular], τοῖν ὄκνοιν [dual, genitive], τῶν ὄκνων [genitive, plural], τῷ ὄκνῳ [dative, singular], τοῖν ὄκνοιν [dative, dual], τοῖς ὄκνοις [dative, plural], τὸν ὄκνον [accusative, singular], τὼ ὄκνω [accusative, dual], τοὺς ὄκνους [accusative, plural], ὄκνε [singular, vocative], ὄκνω [dual, vocative], ὄκνοι [plural, vocative]
  1. shrinking, hesitation Derived forms: ἄοκνος (áoknos), ὀκνέω (oknéō), ὀκνηρός (oknērós)

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