ἐλύδριον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown. It has been connected with ἕλος (hélos, “marsh”), but Beekes points out that this has spiritus asper.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /e.lý.dri.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /eˈly.dri.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /eˈly.ðri.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /eˈly.ðri.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /eˈli.ðri.on/
Noun
ἐλῠ́δρῐον • (elúdrion) n (genitive ἐλῠδρῐ́ου); second declension
- greater celandine (Chelidonium majus)
- Synonyms: ὀθόννᾰ (othónna), χελιδόνιον (khelidónion)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ἐλῠ́δρῐον tò elúdrion |
τὼ ἐλῠδρῐ́ω tṑ eludríō |
τᾰ̀ ἐλῠ́δρῐᾰ tà elúdria | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ἐλῠδρῐ́ου toû eludríou |
τοῖν ἐλῠδρῐ́οιν toîn eludríoin |
τῶν ἐλῠδρῐ́ων tôn eludríōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ἐλῠδρῐ́ῳ tôi eludríōi |
τοῖν ἐλῠδρῐ́οιν toîn eludríoin |
τοῖς ἐλῠδρῐ́οις toîs eludríois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ἐλῠ́δρῐον tò elúdrion |
τὼ ἐλῠδρῐ́ω tṑ eludríō |
τᾰ̀ ἐλῠ́δρῐᾰ tà elúdria | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἐλῠ́δρῐον elúdrion |
ἐλῠδρῐ́ω eludríō |
ἐλῠ́δρῐᾰ elúdria | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “ἐλύδριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἐλύδριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐλύδριον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἐλύδριον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 416
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