νάρθηξ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• νάθραξ (náthrax)

Etymology

According to Beekes, the presence of a variant and the ending in "-ξ" lead to a origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /nár.tʰɛːks/ → /ˈnar.θiks/ → /ˈnar.θiks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /nár.tʰɛːks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈnar.tʰe̝ks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈnar.θiks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈnar.θiks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈnar.θiks/

Noun

νάρθηξ • (nárthēx) m (genitive νάρθηκος); third declension

1. giant fennel (Ferula communis)
2. casket for unguents
3. (architecture) vestibule in a church

Declension

Third declension of ὁ νάρθηξ; τοῦ νάρθηκος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ νάρθηξ ho nárthēx	τὼ νάρθηκε tṑ nárthēke	οἱ νάρθηκες hoi nárthēkes
Genitive	τοῦ νάρθηκος toû nárthēkos	τοῖν ναρθήκοιν toîn narthḗkoin	τῶν ναρθήκων tôn narthḗkōn
Dative	τῷ νάρθηκῐ tôi nárthēki	τοῖν ναρθήκοιν toîn narthḗkoin	τοῖς νάρθηξῐ / νάρθηξῐν toîs nárthēxi(n)
Accusative	τὸν νάρθηκᾰ tòn nárthēka	τὼ νάρθηκε tṑ nárthēke	τοὺς νάρθηκᾰς toùs nárthēkas
Vocative	νάρθηξ nárthēx	νάρθηκε nárthēke	νάρθηκες nárthēkes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ναρθηκία (narthēkía)
• ναρθηκιάω (narthēkiáō)
• ναρθηκίζω (narthēkízō)
• ναρθήκινος (narthḗkinos)
• ναρθήκιον (narthḗkion)
• ναρθήκισμα (narthḗkisma)
• ναρθηκισμός (narthēkismós)
• ναρθηκοειδής (narthēkoeidḗs)
• ναρθηκοπλήρωτος (narthēkoplḗrōtos)
• ναρθηκοφανής (narthēkophanḗs)
• ναρθηκοφόρος (narthēkophóros)
• ναρθηκώδης (narthēkṓdēs)

 

Descendants

• English: narthex
• Greek: νάρθηκας (nárthikas)

Further reading

• “νάρθηξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “νάρθηξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• νάρθηξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • fennel idem, page 315.
• 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