ἄσκυρον
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Ancient Greek[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
According to Furnée, the prothetic vowel points to Pre-Greek origin. On the other hand, Lewy connects the word with Hebrew שחור (shakhór, “black”), because the leaves of this plant have small black dots.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ás.ky.ron/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈas.ky.ron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈas.cy.ron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈas.cy.ron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈas.ci.ron/
Noun[edit]
ἄσκῠρον • (áskuron) n (genitive ἀσκῠ́ρου); second declension
- St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum)
- Synonyms: ἀνδρόσαιμον (andrósaimon), ὑπέρεικος (hupéreikos)
- water plantain (Alisma plantago-aquatica)
- Synonym: ἄλισμα (álisma)
Inflection[edit]
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ἄσκῠρον tò áskuron |
τὼ ἀσκῠ́ρω tṑ askúrō |
τᾰ̀ ἄσκῠρᾰ tà áskura | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ἀσκῠ́ρου toû askúrou |
τοῖν ἀσκῠ́ροιν toîn askúroin |
τῶν ἀσκῠ́ρων tôn askúrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ἀσκῠ́ρῳ tôi askúrōi |
τοῖν ἀσκῠ́ροιν toîn askúroin |
τοῖς ἀσκῠ́ροις toîs askúrois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ἄσκῠρον tò áskuron |
τὼ ἀσκῠ́ρω tṑ askúrō |
τᾰ̀ ἄσκῠρᾰ tà áskura | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἄσκῠρον áskuron |
ἀσκῠ́ρω askúrō |
ἄσκῠρᾰ áskura | ||||||||||
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Derived terms[edit]
- ἀσκυροειδές (askuroeidés)
Descendants[edit]
- → Latin: ascyron
Further reading[edit]
- “ἄσκυρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἄσκυρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄσκυρον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- 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
- Lewy, Heinrich (1895) Die semitischen Fremdwörter im Griechischen (in German), Berlin: R. Gaertner’s Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 47
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
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- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the second declension
- grc:Malpighiales order plants
- grc:Alismatales order plants