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 (ḍafdaʕ), 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
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bá.tra.kʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈba.tra.kʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβa.tra.xos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈva.tra.xos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈva.tra.xos/
Noun
βᾰ́τρᾰχος • (bátrakhos) m (genitive βᾰτρᾰ́χου); second declension
- frog
- Aristophanes, Frogs, 207.
- βατράχων κύκνων θαυμαστά.
- batrákhōn kúknōn thaumastá.
- Most amazing [songs] by the swanlike frogs.
- Aristophanes, Frogs, 207.
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- βατράχιον (batrákhion)
- βατραχομυομαχία (batrakhomuomakhía)
Descendants
- Greek: βάτραχος (vátrachos)
- Translingual: Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template., 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 (2006–2024)
- G944 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 346
Greek
Alternative forms
- (diminutive): βατράχι (vatráchi)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek βάτραχος (bátrakhos, “frog”).
Noun
βάτραχος • (vátrachos) m (plural βάτραχοι)
Declension
Declension of βάτραχος
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
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