βατραχίτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From βάτραχος (bátrakhos, “frog”) +‎ -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ba.tra.kʰǐː.tɛːs/ → /βa.traˈçi.tis/ → /va.traˈçi.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ba.tra.kʰǐː.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ba.traˈkʰi.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /βa.traˈçi.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /va.traˈçi.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /va.traˈçi.tis/

Noun

βᾰτρᾰχῑ́της • (batrakhī́tēs) m (genitive βᾰτρᾰχῑ́του); first declension

1. kind of frog-green stone

Declension

First declension of ὁ βᾰτρᾰχῑ́της; τοῦ βᾰτρᾰχῑ́του (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βᾰτρᾰχῑ́της ho batrakhī́tēs	τὼ βᾰτρᾰχῑ́τᾱ tṑ batrakhī́tā	οἱ βᾰτρᾰχῖται hoi batrakhîtai
Genitive	τοῦ βᾰτρᾰχῑ́του toû batrakhī́tou	τοῖν βᾰτρᾰχῑ́ταιν toîn batrakhī́tain	τῶν βᾰτρᾰχῑτῶν tôn batrakhītôn
Dative	τῷ βᾰτρᾰχῑ́τῃ tôi batrakhī́tēi	τοῖν βᾰτρᾰχῑ́ταιν toîn batrakhī́tain	τοῖς βᾰτρᾰχῑ́ταις toîs batrakhī́tais
Accusative	τὸν βᾰτρᾰχῑ́την tòn batrakhī́tēn	τὼ βᾰτρᾰχῑ́τᾱ tṑ batrakhī́tā	τοὺς βᾰτρᾰχῑ́τᾱς toùs batrakhī́tās
Vocative	βᾰτρᾰχῖτᾰ batrakhîta	βᾰτρᾰχῑ́τᾱ batrakhī́tā	βᾰτρᾰχῖται batrakhîtai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: batrachītēs

Further reading

• “βατραχίτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βατραχίτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βατραχίτης in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)