τεύκριον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Maybe from an original color term, found also in τευθίς (teuthís, “squid”) and τεύθριον (teúthrion, “felty germander”) or from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /těu̯.kri.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtew.kri.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈteɸ.kri.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈtef.kri.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈtef.kri.on/
Noun
τεύκρῐον • (teúkrion) n (genitive τευκρῐ́ου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ τεύκρῐον tò teúkrion |
τὼ τευκρῐ́ω tṑ teukríō |
τᾰ̀ τεύκρῐᾰ tà teúkria | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ τευκρῐ́ου toû teukríou |
τοῖν τευκρῐ́οιν toîn teukríoin |
τῶν τευκρῐ́ων tôn teukríōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ τευκρῐ́ῳ tôi teukríōi |
τοῖν τευκρῐ́οιν toîn teukríoin |
τοῖς τευκρῐ́οις toîs teukríois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ τεύκρῐον tò teúkrion |
τὼ τευκρῐ́ω tṑ teukríō |
τᾰ̀ τεύκρῐᾰ tà teúkria | ||||||||||
| Vocative | τεύκρῐον teúkrion |
τευκρῐ́ω teukríō |
τεύκρῐᾰ teúkria | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Translingual: Teucrium
Further reading
- “τεύκριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τεύκριον 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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