ταρσός

See also: Ταρσός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ταρρός (tarrhós)

Etymology

See Sanskrit तल (tala).

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

 

• IPA^(key): /tar.sós/ → /tarˈsos/ → /tarˈsos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tar.sós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tarˈsos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /tarˈsos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tarˈsos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tarˈsos/

Noun

ταρσός • (tarsós) m (genitive ταρσοῦ); second declension

1. frame of wickerwork, crate, for drying cheese on
2. mat of reeds
3. mass of matted roots
4. (anatomy) flat of the foot; palm of the hand
5. (zoology) flat of the outstretched wing
6. rows of oars on the sides of ships
7. row of teeth in a saw

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ταρσός; τοῦ ταρσοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σύνταρρος (súntarrhos)
• τάρριον (tárrhion)
• ταρσόω (tarsóō)
• ταρσώδης (tarsṓdēs)
• τάρσωμα (társōma)
• ταρσωτός (tarsōtós)
• τρασιά (trasiá)

 

Descendants

• Greek: ταρσός (tarsós)
• Latin: tarsus
• Swedish: tass
  • → Finnish: tassu

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