βαλλωτή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, it's probably from and related to βαλαύστιον (balaústion, “flower of the pomegranate”), βάλαρις (bálaris) and βάλλις (bállis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bal.lɔː.tɛ̌ː/ → /βal.loˈti/ → /va.loˈti/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bal.lɔː.tɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /bal.loˈte̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /βal.loˈti/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /val.loˈti/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /va.loˈti/

Noun

βαλλωτή • (ballōtḗ) f (genitive βαλλωτῆς); first declension

1. black horehound (Ballota nigra)

   Synonym: γνοτέρα (gnotéra)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ βαλλωτή; τῆς βαλλωτῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βαλλωτή hē ballōtḗ	τὼ βαλλωτᾱ́ tṑ ballōtā́	αἱ βαλλωταί hai ballōtaí
Genitive	τῆς βαλλωτῆς tês ballōtês	τοῖν βαλλωταῖν toîn ballōtaîn	τῶν βαλλωτῶν tôn ballōtôn
Dative	τῇ βαλλωτῇ têi ballōtêi	τοῖν βαλλωταῖν toîn ballōtaîn	ταῖς βαλλωταῖς taîs ballōtaîs
Accusative	τὴν βαλλωτήν tḕn ballōtḗn	τὼ βαλλωτᾱ́ tṑ ballōtā́	τᾱ̀ς βαλλωτᾱ́ς tā̀s ballōtā́s
Vocative	βαλλωτή ballōtḗ	βαλλωτᾱ́ ballōtā́	βαλλωταί ballōtaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: ballotē
• → Translingual:

Further reading

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