τραύξανα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes from Pre-Greek. A derivation from θραύω (thraúō) is considered improbable.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /trǎu̯k.sa.na/ → /ˈtraɸk.sa.na/ → /ˈtrafk.sa.na/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /trǎu̯k.sa.na/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtraʍk.sa.na/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈtraɸk.sa.na/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈtrafk.sa.na/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈtrafk.sa.na/

Noun

τραύξᾰνᾰ • (traúxana) n pl (genitive τραυξάνων); second declension

1. (plural only) dry chips, waste that falls from the manger

Declension

Second declension of τᾰ̀ τραύξᾰνᾰ; τῶν τραυξᾰ́νων (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	τᾰ̀ τραύξᾰνᾰ tà traúxana
Genitive	τῶν τραυξᾰ́νων tôn trauxánōn
Dative	τοῖς τραυξᾰ́νοις toîs trauxánois
Accusative	τᾰ̀ τραύξᾰνᾰ tà traúxana
Vocative	τραύξᾰνᾰ traúxana
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “τραύξανα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τραύξανα 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