ἐριθάκη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /e.ri.tʰá.kɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /e.riˈtʰa.ke̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /e.riˈθa.ci/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /e.riˈθa.ci/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /e.riˈθa.ci/
Noun
ἐριθάκη • (erithákē) f (genitive ἐριθάκης); first declension
- bee bread, sandarac (bee pollen with added honey and bee secretions, stored in brood cells)
- Synonyms: κήρῐνθος (kḗrinthos), σᾰνδᾰρᾰ́κη (sandarákē)
- Varr., RR 3.16
- soft parts of crustaceans, entrails of pigs
- 5th century CE, Hesychius Alexandreus, Συναγωγὴ Πασῶν Λέξεων κατὰ Στοιχεῖον
Declension
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἐριθάκη hē erithákē |
τὼ ἐριθάκᾱ tṑ erithákā |
αἱ ἐριθάκαι hai erithákai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἐριθάκης tês erithákēs |
τοῖν ἐριθάκαιν toîn erithákain |
τῶν ἐριθακῶν tôn erithakôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἐριθάκῃ têi erithákēi |
τοῖν ἐριθάκαιν toîn erithákain |
ταῖς ἐριθάκαις taîs erithákais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἐριθάκην tḕn erithákēn |
τὼ ἐριθάκᾱ tṑ erithákā |
τᾱ̀ς ἐριθάκᾱς tā̀s erithákās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἐριθάκη erithákē |
ἐριθάκᾱ erithákā |
ἐριθάκαι erithákai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: erithacē
Further reading
- “ἐριθάκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἐριθάκη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 457
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