ταρσός

See also: Ταρσός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ταρρός (tarrhós) — Attic

Etymology

Has been compared with Middle Armenian թառ (tʿaṙ, “bar for drying grapes”), Old High German darra (“apparatus for drying fruits”), Swedish tarre (“frame for drying malts”), suggesting a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“to dry”). However, for phonetic reasons this is uncertain.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tar.sós/ → /tarˈsos/ → /tarˈsos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tar.sós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tarˈsos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /tarˈsos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tarˈsos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tarˈsos/

Noun

τᾰρσός • (tarsós) m (genitive τᾰρσοῦ); second declension

1. A frame of wickerwork, crate, flat basket, for drying cheese on; (generally) a basket.
   1. A mat of reeds, such as were built into brickwork to bind it together.
   2. A mass of matted roots.
2. : (of various broad flat surfaces)
   1. (anatomy) The flat of the foot (the part between the toes and the heel).
      1. The palm of the hand.
      2. The ankle.
   2. The rows of oars on the sides of ships.
   3. (zoology) The flat of the outstretched wing.
   4. The row of teeth in a saw.
   5. (anatomy) The edge of the eyelid and its lashes.

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ τᾰρσός; τοῦ τᾰρσοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ τᾰρσός ho tarsós	τὼ τᾰρσώ tṑ tarsṓ	οἱ τᾰρσοί hoi tarsoí
Genitive	τοῦ τᾰρσοῦ toû tarsoû	τοῖν τᾰρσοῖν toîn tarsoîn	τῶν τᾰρσῶν tôn tarsôn
Dative	τῷ τᾰρσῷ tôi tarsôi	τοῖν τᾰρσοῖν toîn tarsoîn	τοῖς τᾰρσοῖς toîs tarsoîs
Accusative	τὸν τᾰρσόν tòn tarsón	τὼ τᾰρσώ tṑ tarsṓ	τοὺς τᾰρσούς toùs tarsoús
Vocative	τᾰρσέ tarsé	τᾰρσώ tarsṓ	τᾰρσοί tarsoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἐκτᾰρσόομαι (ektarsóomai)
• εὔτᾰρσος (eútarsos)
• σῠ́ντᾰρρος (súntarrhos)
• τρᾰσῐᾱ́ (trasiā́)
• τᾰ́ρρῐον (tárrhion)
• τᾰρσόομαι (tarsóomai)
• τᾰρσόω (tarsóō)
• τᾰρσώδης (tarsṓdēs)
• τᾰ́ρσωμᾰ (társōma)
• τᾰρσωτός (tarsōtós)
• χρῡσεότᾰρσος (khrūseótarsos)

 

Descendants

• Greek: ταρσός (tarsós)
• → New Latin: tarsus
  • → English: tarsus
• >? Swedish: tass (unlikely)
  • → Finnish: tassu

References

• “ταρσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ταρσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ταρσός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ταρσός 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