μοσχάριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μόσχος (móskhos, “calf, young bull”) +‎ -ᾰ́ρῐον (-árion, diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mosˈxa.ri.on/ → /mosˈxa.ri.on/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /mosˈkʰa.ri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /mosˈxa.ri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /mosˈxa.ri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /mosˈxa.ri.on/

Noun

μοσχᾰ́ρῐον • (moskhárion) n (genitive μοσχᾰρίου); second declension (Koine)

1. little calf
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Genesis 18.8
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Isaiah 11.6
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Leviticus 9.2

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ μοσχᾰ́ρῐον; τοῦ μοσχᾰρῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ μοσχᾰ́ρῐον tò moskhárion	τὼ μοσχᾰρῐ́ω tṑ moskharíō	τᾰ̀ μοσχᾰ́ρῐᾰ tà moskhária
Genitive	τοῦ μοσχᾰρῐ́ου toû moskharíou	τοῖν μοσχᾰρῐ́οιν toîn moskharíoin	τῶν μοσχᾰρῐ́ων tôn moskharíōn
Dative	τῷ μοσχᾰρῐ́ῳ tôi moskharíōi	τοῖν μοσχᾰρῐ́οιν toîn moskharíoin	τοῖς μοσχᾰρῐ́οις toîs moskharíois
Accusative	τὸ μοσχᾰ́ρῐον tò moskhárion	τὼ μοσχᾰρῐ́ω tṑ moskharíō	τᾰ̀ μοσχᾰ́ρῐᾰ tà moskhária
Vocative	μοσχᾰ́ρῐον moskhárion	μοσχᾰρῐ́ω moskharíō	μοσχᾰ́ρῐᾰ moskhária
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: μοσχάρι (moschári)

Further reading

• μοσχάριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “μοσχάριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μοσχάριον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011