ἀσάμινθος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.sá.min.tʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈsa.min.tʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈsa.min.θos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈsa.min.θos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈsa.min.θos/
Noun
ἀσάμινθος • (asáminthos) f (genitive ἀσάμινθου); second declension
- A bathtub
Declension
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἀσάμινθος hē asáminthos |
τὼ ἀσαμίνθω tṑ asamínthō |
αἱ ἀσάμινθοι hai asáminthoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἀσαμίνθου tês asamínthou |
τοῖν ἀσαμίνθοιν toîn asamínthoin |
τῶν ἀσαμίνθων tôn asamínthōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἀσαμίνθῳ têi asamínthōi |
τοῖν ἀσαμίνθοιν toîn asamínthoin |
ταῖς ἀσαμίνθοις taîs asamínthois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἀσάμινθον tḕn asáminthon |
τὼ ἀσαμίνθω tṑ asamínthō |
τᾱ̀ς ἀσαμίνθους tā̀s asamínthous | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἀσάμινθε asáminthe |
ἀσαμίνθω asamínthō |
ἀσάμινθοι asáminthoi | ||||||||||
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Synonyms
Further reading
- “ἀσάμινθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀσάμινθος 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
- Reece, Steve (2009) “The Homeric and Mycenaean Bath ἀσάμινθος / νἀσάμινθος”, in Homer's Winged Words: The Evolution of Early Greek Epic Diction in the Light of Oral Theory, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 276
- Szemerényi, Oswald (1971) “Pierre Chantraine: Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque: Histoire des mots”, in Gnomon, volume 43, , page 657
- Szemerényi, Oswald (1974) “The origins of the Greek lexicon: Ex Oriente Lux”, in The Journal of Hellenic Studies[1], volume 94, , page 149
Categories:
- Ancient Greek rebracketings
- Ancient Greek 4-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the second declension
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