νίτρον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• λῐ́τρον (lítron) — Homeric, Attic

Etymology

Borrowed from Semitic. Compare Hebrew נֶתֶר (néter, “washing soda”), Arabic نطرون (naṭrūn, “natron”). All ultimately from Egyptian nṯrj:

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ní.tron/ → /ˈni.tron/ → /ˈni.tron/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ní.tron/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈni.tron/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈni.tron/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈni.tron/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈni.tron/

Noun

νῐ́τρον • (nítron) n (genitive νῐ́τρου); second declension

1. sodium carbonate

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ νῐ́τρον; τοῦ νῐ́τρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ νῐ́τρον tò nítron	τὼ νῐ́τρω tṑ nítrō	τᾰ̀ νῐ́τρᾰ tà nítra
Genitive	τοῦ νῐ́τρου toû nítrou	τοῖν νῐ́τροιν toîn nítroin	τῶν νῐ́τρων tôn nítrōn
Dative	τῷ νῐ́τρῳ tôi nítrōi	τοῖν νῐ́τροιν toîn nítroin	τοῖς νῐ́τροις toîs nítrois
Accusative	τὸ νῐ́τρον tò nítron	τὼ νῐ́τρω tṑ nítrō	τᾰ̀ νῐ́τρᾰ tà nítra
Vocative	νῐ́τρον nítron	νῐ́τρω nítrō	νῐ́τρᾰ nítra
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “νίτρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “νίτρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• νίτρον 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