ταρσός
See also: Ταρσός
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ταρρός (tarrhós)
Etymology
In the sense of drying-frame, has been compared with Armenian թառ (tʻaṙ, “bar for drying grapes”), Old High German darra (“apparatus for drying fruits”), Swedish tarre (“frame for drying malts”), suggesting a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“to dry”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tar.sós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tarˈsos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /tarˈsos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /tarˈsos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /tarˈsos/
Noun
ταρσός • (tarsós) m (genitive ταρσοῦ); second declension
- frame of wickerwork, crate, for drying cheese on
- mat of reeds
- mass of matted roots
- (anatomy) flat of the foot; palm of the hand
- (zoology) flat of the outstretched wing
- rows of oars on the sides of ships
- row of teeth in a saw
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ταρσός ho tarsós |
τὼ ταρσώ tṑ tarsṓ |
οἱ ταρσοί hoi tarsoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ταρσοῦ toû tarsoû |
τοῖν ταρσοῖν toîn tarsoîn |
τῶν ταρσῶν tôn tarsôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ταρσῷ tôi tarsôi |
τοῖν ταρσοῖν toîn tarsoîn |
τοῖς ταρσοῖς toîs tarsoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ταρσόν tòn tarsón |
τὼ ταρσώ tṑ tarsṓ |
τοὺς ταρσούς toùs tarsoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | ταρσέ tarsé |
ταρσώ tarsṓ |
ταρσοί tarsoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “ταρσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ταρσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ταρσός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ταρσός 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
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