βάτραχος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Imitative of croaking, but this imitation has probably taken place not in Greek, but the Greek has borrowed from Semitic, compare Hebrew צְפַרְדֵּעַ‎ (ṣəp̄ardḗaʿ), Arabic ضَفْدَع‎ (ḍafdaʿ), considering that in the dialect of Zakynthos the frog is matching the Semitic with σπορδακάς (spordakás) – unless of course one must find that Semitic and Greek have borrowed from an unknown third.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bá.tra.kʰos/ → /ˈβa.tra.xos/ → /ˈva.tra.xos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bá.tra.kʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈba.tra.kʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβa.tra.xos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈva.tra.xos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈva.tra.xos/

Noun

βᾰ́τρᾰχος • (bátrakhos) m (genitive βᾰτρᾰ́χου); second declension

1. frog

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ βᾰ́τρᾰχος; τοῦ βᾰτρᾰ́χου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βᾰ́τρᾰχος ho bátrakhos	τὼ βᾰτρᾰ́χω tṑ batrákhō	οἱ βᾰ́τρᾰχοι hoi bátrakhoi
Genitive	τοῦ βᾰτρᾰ́χου toû batrákhou	τοῖν βᾰτρᾰ́χοιν toîn batrákhoin	τῶν βᾰτρᾰ́χων tôn batrákhōn
Dative	τῷ βᾰτρᾰ́χῳ tôi batrákhōi	τοῖν βᾰτρᾰ́χοιν toîn batrákhoin	τοῖς βᾰτρᾰ́χοις toîs batrákhois
Accusative	τὸν βᾰ́τρᾰχον tòn bátrakhon	τὼ βᾰτρᾰ́χω tṑ batrákhō	τοὺς βᾰτρᾰ́χους toùs batrákhous
Vocative	βᾰ́τρᾰχε bátrakhe	βᾰτρᾰ́χω batrákhō	βᾰ́τρᾰχοι bátrakhoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• βατραχομυομαχία (batrakhomuomakhía)

Descendants

• Greek: βάτραχος (vátrachos)
• Translingual: Batrachus, Batrachia

References

• Brown, John Pairman (1995) Israel and Hellas (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft; 231), volume I, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, page 336
• Brown, John Pairman (2000) Israel and Hellas (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft; 276), volume II, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, page 60

Further reading

• βάτραχος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βάτραχος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βάτραχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βάτραχος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2018)
• “G944”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 346

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Greek

Alternative forms

• (diminutive): βατράχι (vatráchi)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βάτραχος (bátrakhos, “frog”).

Noun

βάτραχος • (vátrachos) m (plural βάτραχοι)

1. frog

Declension

declension of βάτραχος

	singular	plural
nominative	βάτραχος •	βάτραχοι •
genitive	βατράχου •	βατράχων •
accusative	βάτραχο •	βατράχους •
vocative	βάτραχε •	βάτραχοι •

Derived terms

• βατράχι n (vatráchi, “froglet”)
• βατραχάκι n (vatracháki, “frog”)
• βατραχάνθρωπος m (vatrachánthropos, “frogman”)
• βατραχοπέδιλο n (vatrachopédilo, “flipper”)
• βατραχοφάγος (vatrachofágos, “frog eating”, adjective)

Further reading

• βάτραχος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el