μαργαρίτης

See also: Μαργαρίτης

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μαργᾰρῑ́δης (margarī́dēs) — Ionic

Etymology

Borrowed from Indo-Iranian. According to Beekes, possibly from Proto-Iranian *mŕ̥ga-ahri-ita- (“oyster”, literally “born from the shell of a bird”). Compare Middle Persian mwlwʾlyt' (morwārīd) (whence Persian مروارید (marvārīd)), Sogdian [script needed] (marγārt), Sanskrit मञ्जरी (mañjarī), and Avestan 𐬨𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬫𐬀 (mərəya).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mar.ɡa.rǐː.tɛːs/ → /mar.ɣaˈri.tis/ → /mar.ɣaˈri.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mar.ɡa.rǐː.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /mar.ɡaˈri.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /mar.ɣaˈri.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /mar.ɣaˈri.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /mar.ɣaˈri.tis/

Noun

μαργᾰρῑ́της • (margarī́tēs) m (genitive μαργᾰρῑ́του); first declension

1. pearl
2. a type of Egyptian plant

Inflection

First declension of ὁ μαργᾰρῑ́της; τοῦ μαργᾰρῑ́του (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μαργᾰρῑ́της ho margarī́tēs	τὼ μαργᾰρῑ́τᾱ tṑ margarī́tā	οἱ μαργᾰρῖται hoi margarîtai
Genitive	τοῦ μαργᾰρῑ́του toû margarī́tou	τοῖν μαργᾰρῑ́ταιν toîn margarī́tain	τῶν μαργᾰρῑτῶν tôn margarītôn
Dative	τῷ μαργᾰρῑ́τῃ tôi margarī́tēi	τοῖν μαργᾰρῑ́ταιν toîn margarī́tain	τοῖς μαργᾰρῑ́ταις toîs margarī́tais
Accusative	τὸν μαργᾰρῑ́την tòn margarī́tēn	τὼ μαργᾰρῑ́τᾱ tṑ margarī́tā	τοὺς μαργᾰρῑ́τᾱς toùs margarī́tās
Vocative	μαργᾰρῖτᾰ margarîta	μαργᾰρῑ́τᾱ margarī́tā	μαργᾰρῖται margarîtai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: μαργαρίτα (margaríta)
• → Aramaic: מרגניתא, מַרְגָּלִיתָא (margālīṯā)
  • Classical Syriac: ܡܪܓܢܝܬܐ
  • → Hebrew: מַרְגָּלִית (margalít)
• → English: margarite
• → Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌹𐌺𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌿𐍃 (marikreitus)
• → Latin: margarīta (see there for further descendants)

References

• “μαργαρίτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μαργαρίτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μαργαρίτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G3135 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• 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