δωράκινον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Latin dūracinum, nominative neuter singular of dūracinus (“hard-berried”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ðoˈra.ci.non/

• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðoˈra.ci.non/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðoˈra.ci.non/

Noun

δωράκινον • (dōrákinon) n (genitive δωρακίνου); second declension

1. type of peach
   • Geoponica, 3 1.4
   • Geoponica, 10 13.1

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ δωράκινον; τοῦ δωρακίνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Plural
Nominative	τὸ δωράκινον tò dōrákinon	τᾰ̀ δωράκινᾰ tà dōrákina
Genitive	τοῦ δωρακίνου toû dōrakínou	τῶν δωρακίνων tôn dōrakínōn
Dative	τῷ δωρακίνῳ tôi dōrakínōi	τοῖς δωρακίνοις toîs dōrakínois
Accusative	τὸ δωράκινον tò dōrákinon	τᾰ̀ δωράκινᾰ tà dōrákina
Vocative	δωράκινον dōrákinon	δωράκινᾰ dōrákina
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܕܘܪܩܝܢܐ (dōraqqīnā, dūrqīnā)

  • > Arabic: دُرَّاق‎ (durrāq)
• Greek: ροδάκινο (rodákino)

References

• “δωράκινον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• δωράκινον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• δωράκινον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• δωράκινον in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften