μεμβράς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• βεμβράς (bembrás)

Etymology

From the same Pre-Greek source of βαμβραδών (bambradṓn, “kind of sprat”) and βεβράδα (bebráda, “kind of smelt”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mem.brás/ → /memˈbras/ → /memˈbras/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mem.brás/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /memˈbras/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /memˈbras/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /memˈbras/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /memˈbras/

Noun

μεμβρᾰ́ς • (membrás) f (genitive μεμβρᾰ́δος); third declension

1. small kind of sprat or anchovy

Declension

Third declension of ἡ μεμβρᾰ́ς; τῆς μεμβρᾰ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μεμβρᾰ́ς hē membrás	τὼ μεμβρᾰ́δε tṑ membráde	αἱ μεμβρᾰ́δες hai membrádes
Genitive	τῆς μεμβρᾰ́δος tês membrádos	τοῖν μεμβρᾰ́δοιν toîn membrádoin	τῶν μεμβρᾰ́δων tôn membrádōn
Dative	τῇ μεμβρᾰ́δῐ têi membrádi	τοῖν μεμβρᾰ́δοιν toîn membrádoin	ταῖς μεμβρᾰ́σῐ / μεμβρᾰ́σῐν taîs membrási(n)
Accusative	τὴν μεμβρᾰ́δᾰ tḕn membráda	τὼ μεμβρᾰ́δε tṑ membráde	τᾱ̀ς μεμβρᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s membrádas
Vocative	μεμβρᾰ́ς membrás	μεμβρᾰ́δε membráde	μεμβρᾰ́δες membrádes
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

• μεμβράδιον (membrádion)
• μεμβραδοπώλης (membradopṓlēs)
• μεμβραφύα (membraphúa)

 

Further reading

• “μεμβράς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μεμβράς 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