ὁλοθούριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ho.lo.tʰǔː.ri.on/ → /o.loˈθu.ri.on/ → /o.loˈθu.ri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ho.lo.tʰǔː.ri.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)o.loˈtʰu.ri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /o.loˈθu.ri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /o.loˈθu.ri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /o.loˈθu.ri.on/

Noun

ὁλοθούρῐον • (holothoúrion) n (genitive ὁλοθουρῐ́ου); second declension

1. the holothurium, a kind of zoophyte
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 1.1,28
   • 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 4.5,43
   • Pliney the Elder, Natural History 9.71

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ὁλοθούρῐον; τοῦ ὁλοθουρῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ὁλοθούρῐον tò holothoúrion	τὼ ὁλοθουρῐ́ω tṑ holothouríō	τᾰ̀ ὁλοθούρῐᾰ tà holothoúria
Genitive	τοῦ ὁλοθουρῐ́ου toû holothouríou	τοῖν ὁλοθουρῐ́οιν toîn holothouríoin	τῶν ὁλοθουρῐ́ων tôn holothouríōn
Dative	τῷ ὁλοθουρῐ́ῳ tôi holothouríōi	τοῖν ὁλοθουρῐ́οιν toîn holothouríoin	τοῖς ὁλοθουρῐ́οις toîs holothouríois
Accusative	τὸ ὁλοθούρῐον tò holothoúrion	τὼ ὁλοθουρῐ́ω tṑ holothouríō	τᾰ̀ ὁλοθούρῐᾰ tà holothoúria
Vocative	ὁλοθούρῐον holothoúrion	ὁλοθουρῐ́ω holothouríō	ὁλοθούρῐᾰ holothoúria
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ὁλοθούριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὁλοθούριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette