τεύθριον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Maybe from an original color term, found also in τευθίς (teuthís, “squid”) and τεύκριον (teúkrion, “tree germander”) or from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /těu̯.tʰri.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtew.tʰri.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈteɸ.θri.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈtef.θri.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈtef.θri.on/
Noun
τεύθρῐον • (teúthrion) n (genitive τευθρῐ́ου); second declension
- felty germander (Teucrium polium)
- Synonyms: ἀχαιμενῐ́ς (akhaimenís), ἐβενῖτῐς (ebenîtis), πόλιον (pólion)
- madder (Rubia tinctorum)
- Synonym: ἐρευθέδανον (ereuthédanon)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ τεύθρῐον tò teúthrion |
τὼ τευθρῐ́ω tṑ teuthríō |
τᾰ̀ τεύθρῐᾰ tà teúthria | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ τευθρῐ́ου toû teuthríou |
τοῖν τευθρῐ́οιν toîn teuthríoin |
τῶν τευθρῐ́ων tôn teuthríōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ τευθρῐ́ῳ tôi teuthríōi |
τοῖν τευθρῐ́οιν toîn teuthríoin |
τοῖς τευθρῐ́οις toîs teuthríois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ τεύθρῐον tò teúthrion |
τὼ τευθρῐ́ω tṑ teuthríō |
τᾰ̀ τεύθρῐᾰ tà teúthria | ||||||||||
| Vocative | τεύθρῐον teúthrion |
τευθρῐ́ω teuthríō |
τεύθρῐᾰ teúthria | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “τεύθριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τεύθριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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
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