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 • (thruallís) 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 thruallís	τὼ θρῠαλλῐ́δε tṑ thruallíde	αἱ θρῠαλλῐ́δες hai thruallídes
Genitive	τῆς θρῠαλλῐ́δος tês thruallídos	τοῖν θρῠαλλῐ́δοιν toîn thruallídoin	τῶν θρῠαλλῐ́δων tôn thruallídōn
Dative	τῇ θρῠαλλῐ́δῐ têi thruallídi	τοῖν θρῠαλλῐ́δοιν toîn thruallídoin	ταῖς θρῠαλλῐ́σῐ / θρῠαλλῐ́σῐν taîs thruallísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν θρῠαλλῐ́δᾰ tḕn thruallída	τὼ θρῠαλλῐ́δε tṑ thruallíde	τᾱ̀ς θρῠαλλῐ́δᾰς tā̀s thruallídas
Vocative	θρῠαλλῐ́ς thruallís	θρῠαλλῐ́δε thruallíde	θρῠαλλῐ́δες thruallídes
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 *-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