πτισάνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πτῐ́σσω (ptíssō, “to winnow grain”) +‎ -ᾰ́νη (-ánē, nominal suffix), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peys- (“to crush”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pti.sá.nɛː/ → /ptiˈsa.ni/ → /ptiˈsa.ni/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pti.sá.nɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ptiˈsa.ne̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ptiˈsa.ni/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ptiˈsa.ni/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ptiˈsa.ni/

Noun

πτῐσᾰ́νη • (ptisánē) f (genitive πτῐσᾰ́νης); first declension

1. pearl barley
2. barley-gruel

Inflection

First declension of ἡ πτῐσᾰ́νη; τῆς πτῐσᾰ́νης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πτῐσᾰ́νη hē ptisánē	τὼ πτῐσᾰ́νᾱ tṑ ptisánā	αἱ πτῐσᾰ́ναι hai ptisánai
Genitive	τῆς πτῐσᾰ́νης tês ptisánēs	τοῖν πτῐσᾰ́ναιν toîn ptisánain	τῶν πτῐσᾰνῶν tôn ptisanôn
Dative	τῇ πτῐσᾰ́νῃ têi ptisánēi	τοῖν πτῐσᾰ́ναιν toîn ptisánain	ταῖς πτῐσᾰ́ναις taîs ptisánais
Accusative	τὴν πτῐσᾰ́νην tḕn ptisánēn	τὼ πτῐσᾰ́νᾱ tṑ ptisánā	τᾱ̀ς πτῐσᾰ́νᾱς tā̀s ptisánās
Vocative	πτῐσᾰ́νη ptisánē	πτῐσᾰ́νᾱ ptisánā	πτῐσᾰ́ναι ptisánai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πτῐσᾰ́νης (ptisánēs)
• πτῐσᾰνορρῠφῐ́ᾱ (ptisanorrhuphíā)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: tisana
  • Catalan: tisana
  • Middle French: tizane, tisane
    • English: tisane
    • French: tisane
      • Romanian: tizană
  • German: Ptisane
  • Italian: tisana
  • Portuguese: tisana
  • Sicilian: tisana
  • Spanish: tisana

Further reading

• “πτισάνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πτισάνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πτισάνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette