ὀνοβρυχίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὄνος (ónos, “ass, donkey”) +‎ βρύχω (brúkhō, “to devour”) +‎ -ίς (-ís).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /o.no.bry.kʰís/ → /o.no.βryˈçis/ → /o.no.vriˈçis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /o.no.bry.kʰís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /o.no.bryˈkʰis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /o.no.βryˈçis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /o.no.vryˈçis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /o.no.vriˈçis/

Noun

ὀνοβρῠχῐ́ς • (onobrukhís) f (genitive ὀνοβρῠχῐ́δος); third declension

1. cockshead (Onobrychis caput-galli)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ὀνοβρῠχῐ́ς; τῆς ὀνοβρῠχῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὀνοβρῠχῐ́ς hē onobrukhís	τὼ ὀνοβρῠχῐ́δε tṑ onobrukhíde	αἱ ὀνοβρῠχῐ́δες hai onobrukhídes
Genitive	τῆς ὀνοβρῠχῐ́δος tês onobrukhídos	τοῖν ὀνοβρῠχῐ́δοιν toîn onobrukhídoin	τῶν ὀνοβρῠχῐ́δων tôn onobrukhídōn
Dative	τῇ ὀνοβρῠχῐ́δῐ têi onobrukhídi	τοῖν ὀνοβρῠχῐ́δοιν toîn onobrukhídoin	ταῖς ὀνοβρῠχῐ́σῐ / ὀνοβρῠχῐ́σῐν taîs onobrukhísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ὀνοβρῠχῐ́δᾰ tḕn onobrukhída	τὼ ὀνοβρῠχῐ́δε tṑ onobrukhíde	τᾱ̀ς ὀνοβρῠχῐ́δᾰς tā̀s onobrukhídas
Vocative	ὀνοβρῠχῐ́ς onobrukhís	ὀνοβρῠχῐ́δε onobrukhíde	ὀνοβρῠχῐ́δες onobrukhídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Onobrychis

References

• “ὀνοβρυχίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὀνοβρυχίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette