ὀστρακῖτις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὄστρακον (óstrakon, “earthen vessel”) +‎ -ῖτις (-îtis), feminine form of ὀστρακίτης (ostrakítēs, “earthen, made of clay”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /os.tra.kîː.tis/ → /os.traˈci.tis/ → /os.traˈci.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /os.tra.kîː.tis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /os.traˈki.tis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /os.traˈci.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /os.traˈci.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /os.traˈci.tis/

Noun

ὀστρᾰκῖτῐς • (ostrakîtis) f (genitive ὀστρᾰκῑ́τῐδος); third declension

1. cadmia of inferior quality

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ὀστρᾰκῖτῐς; τῆς ὀστρᾰκῑ́τῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὀστρᾰκῖτῐς hē ostrakîtis	τὼ ὀστρᾰκῑ́τῐδε tṑ ostrakī́tide	αἱ ὀστρᾰκῑ́τῐδες hai ostrakī́tides
Genitive	τῆς ὀστρᾰκῑ́τῐδος tês ostrakī́tidos	τοῖν ὀστρᾰκῑτῐ́δοιν toîn ostrakītídoin	τῶν ὀστρᾰκῑτῐ́δων tôn ostrakītídōn
Dative	τῇ ὀστρᾰκῑ́τῐδῐ têi ostrakī́tidi	τοῖν ὀστρᾰκῑτῐ́δοιν toîn ostrakītídoin	ταῖς ὀστρᾰκῑ́τῐσῐ / ὀστρᾰκῑ́τῐσῐν taîs ostrakī́tisi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ὀστρᾰκῑ́τῐδᾰ tḕn ostrakī́tida	τὼ ὀστρᾰκῑ́τῐδε tṑ ostrakī́tide	τᾱ̀ς ὀστρᾰκῑ́τῐδᾰς tā̀s ostrakī́tidas
Vocative	ὀστρᾰκῖτῐς ostrakîtis	ὀστρᾰκῑ́τῐδε ostrakī́tide	ὀστρᾰκῑ́τῐδες ostrakī́tides
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

• → Latin: ostracītis

References

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