γάλαξ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Perhaps from γάλα (gála, “milk”), because of the color of its shell.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɡá.laks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈɡa.laks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɣa.laks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈɣa.laks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈɣa.laks/
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ γᾰ́λᾰξ ho gálax |
τὼ γᾰ́λᾰκε tṑ gálake |
οἱ γᾰ́λᾰκες hoi gálakes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ γᾰ́λᾰκος toû gálakos |
τοῖν γᾰλᾰ́κοιν toîn galákoin |
τῶν γᾰλᾰ́κων tôn galákōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ γᾰ́λᾰκῐ tôi gálaki |
τοῖν γᾰλᾰ́κοιν toîn galákoin |
τοῖς γᾰ́λᾰξῐ / γᾰ́λᾰξῐν toîs gálaxi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν γᾰ́λᾰκᾰ tòn gálaka |
τὼ γᾰ́λᾰκε tṑ gálake |
τοὺς γᾰ́λᾰκᾰς toùs gálakas | ||||||||||
| Vocative | γᾰ́λᾰξ gálax |
γᾰ́λᾰκε gálake |
γᾰ́λᾰκες gálakes | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Translingual: Galax
Further reading
- “γάλαξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- γάλαξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- γάλαξ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- 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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