θρυαλλίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The suffix -ίς occurs mostly with plants and birds, so the word is probably Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰry.al.lís/ → /θry.alˈlis/ → /θri.aˈlis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰry.al.lís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tʰry.alˈlis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /θry.alˈlis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /θry.alˈlis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /θri.aˈlis/

Noun

θρῠαλλίς • (thrŭallís) f (genitive θρῠαλλίδος); third declension

1. plantain (Plantago crassifolia)
2. wick made with this plant

   Synonym: ἐλλύχνιον (ellúkhnion)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ θρῠαλλῐ́ς; τῆς θρῠαλλῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ θρῠαλλῐ́ς hē thrŭallĭ́s	τὼ θρῠαλλῐ́δε tṑ thrŭallĭ́de	αἱ θρῠαλλῐ́δες hai thrŭallĭ́des
Genitive	τῆς θρῠαλλῐ́δος tês thrŭallĭ́dos	τοῖν θρῠαλλῐ́δοιν toîn thrŭallĭ́doin	τῶν θρῠαλλῐ́δων tôn thrŭallĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ θρῠαλλῐ́δῐ tēî thrŭallĭ́dĭ	τοῖν θρῠαλλῐ́δοιν toîn thrŭallĭ́doin	ταῖς θρῠαλλῐ́σῐ / θρῠαλλῐ́σῐν taîs thrŭallĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν θρῠαλλῐ́δᾰ tḕn thrŭallĭ́dă	τὼ θρῠαλλῐ́δε tṑ thrŭallĭ́de	τᾱ̀ς θρῠαλλῐ́δᾰς tā̀s thrŭallĭ́dăs
Vocative	θρῠαλλῐ́ thrŭallĭ́	θρῠαλλῐ́δε thrŭallĭ́de	θρῠαλλῐ́δες thrŭallĭ́des
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-δς (*-ds).

Derived terms

• θρυαλλίδιον (thruallídion)

Further reading

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