ὀστρακισμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὀστρακίζω (ostrakízō) +‎ -μός (-mós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /os.tra.kiz.mós/ → /os.tra.cizˈmos/ → /os.tra.cizˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /os.tra.kiz.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /os.tra.kizˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /os.tra.cizˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /os.tra.cizˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /os.tra.cizˈmos/

Noun

ὀστρᾰκῐσμός • (ostrăkĭsmós) m (genitive ὀστρᾰκῐσμοῦ); second declension

1. ostracism

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ὀστρᾰκῐσμός; τοῦ ὀστρᾰκῐσμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὀστρᾰκῐσμός ho ostrăkĭsmós	τὼ ὀστρᾰκῐσμώ tṑ ostrăkĭsmṓ	οἱ ὀστρᾰκῐσμοί hoi ostrăkĭsmoí
Genitive	τοῦ ὀστρᾰκῐσμοῦ toû ostrăkĭsmoû	τοῖν ὀστρᾰκῐσμοῖν toîn ostrăkĭsmoîn	τῶν ὀστρᾰκῐσμῶν tôn ostrăkĭsmôn
Dative	τῷ ὀστρᾰκῐσμῷ tōî ostrăkĭsmōî	τοῖν ὀστρᾰκῐσμοῖν toîn ostrăkĭsmoîn	τοῖς ὀστρᾰκῐσμοῖς toîs ostrăkĭsmoîs
Accusative	τὸν ὀστρᾰκῐσμόν tòn ostrăkĭsmón	τὼ ὀστρᾰκῐσμώ tṑ ostrăkĭsmṓ	τοὺς ὀστρᾰκῐσμούς toùs ostrăkĭsmoús
Vocative	ὀστρᾰκῐσμέ ostrăkĭsmé	ὀστρᾰκῐσμώ ostrăkĭsmṓ	ὀστρᾰκῐσμοί ostrăkĭsmoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: οστρακισμός (ostrakismós)
• → English: ostracism (learned)
• → French: ostracisme (learned)

Further reading

• “ὀστρακισμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὀστρακισμός” in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • ostracism idem, page 581.