ἄλφιτον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂elbʰi-. Cognates include Albanian elb.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ál.pʰi.ton/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈal.pʰi.ton/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈal.ɸi.ton/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈal.fi.ton/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈal.fi.ton/
Noun
ἄλφιτον • (álphiton) n (genitive ἀλφίτου); second declension (chiefly in the plural)
- barley-groats
- meal, groats
- (figuratively) one's daily bread, bread and cheese
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ἄλφιτον tò álphiton |
τὼ ἀλφίτω tṑ alphítō |
τᾰ̀ ἄλφιτᾰ tà álphita | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ἀλφίτου toû alphítou |
τοῖν ἀλφίτοιν toîn alphítoin |
τῶν ἀλφίτων tôn alphítōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ἀλφίτῳ tôi alphítōi |
τοῖν ἀλφίτοιν toîn alphítoin |
τοῖς ἀλφίτοις toîs alphítois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ἄλφιτον tò álphiton |
τὼ ἀλφίτω tṑ alphítō |
τᾰ̀ ἄλφιτᾰ tà álphita | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἄλφιτον álphiton |
ἀλφίτω alphítō |
ἄλφιτᾰ álphita | ||||||||||
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See also
- ἄλφι (álphi)
References
- “ἄλφιτον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄλφιτον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἄλφιτον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἄλφιτον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the second declension
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