νάρδος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Phoenician (compare Hebrew נֵרְדְּ (nērd), Aramaic נִרְדָּא (nirdā), Akkadian 𒆠𒆗 (HIRIM /⁠lardu⁠/), Arabic رَنْد (rand), Old South Arabian 𐩧𐩬𐩵 (rnd)), possibly from Sanskrit नलद (nálada, “Indian narde”) (although a Semitic-to-Indian loan has also been suggested).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /nár.dos/ → /ˈnar.ðos/ → /ˈnar.ðos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /nár.dos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈnar.dos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈnar.ðos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈnar.ðos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈnar.ðos/

Noun

νᾰ́ρδος • (nárdos) f (genitive νᾰ́ρδου); second declension

1. nard plant, spikenard, nardin, muskroot
2. nard oil, a highly prized ointment made from the plant

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ νᾰ́ρδος; τῆς νᾰ́ρδου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ νᾰ́ρδος hē nárdos	τὼ νᾰ́ρδω tṑ nárdō	αἱ νᾰ́ρδοι hai nárdoi
Genitive	τῆς νᾰ́ρδου tês nárdou	τοῖν νᾰ́ρδοιν toîn nárdoin	τῶν νᾰ́ρδων tôn nárdōn
Dative	τῇ νᾰ́ρδῳ têi nárdōi	τοῖν νᾰ́ρδοιν toîn nárdoin	ταῖς νᾰ́ρδοις taîs nárdois
Accusative	τὴν νᾰ́ρδον tḕn nárdon	τὼ νᾰ́ρδω tṑ nárdō	τᾱ̀ς νᾰ́ρδους tā̀s nárdous
Vocative	νᾰ́ρδε nárde	νᾰ́ρδω nárdō	νᾰ́ρδοι nárdoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• νάρδινος (nárdinos)

Descendants

• Greek: νάρδος (nárdos)
• → Gothic: 𐌽𐌰𐍂𐌳𐌿𐍃 (nardus) (possibly via Latin)
• → Latin: nardus
  • → Catalan: nard
  • Italian: nardo
  • → Middle Dutch: nardus
    • Dutch: nardus
  • Old French: narde
    • French: nard
    • → Middle Dutch: narde
    • → Middle English: narde
      • English: nard
  • Romanian: nard
  • Spanish: nardo
• → Old Armenian: նարդոս (nardos)
• → Old Georgian: ნარდი (nardi), ნარდიონი (nardioni), ლარდიონი (lardioni)
  • Georgian: ნარდი (nardi)
• → Old East Slavic: нардъ (nardŭ)
  • Russian: нард (nard)
• → Serbo-Croatian: на̏рд, nȁrd

Further reading

• “νάρδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “νάρδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• νάρδος 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
• Lewy, Heinrich (1895) Die semitischen Fremdwörter im Griechischen (in German), Berlin: R. Gaertner’s Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 40
• G3487 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• νάρδος nardos nard oil, in Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament edited by Horst Balz, Gerhard Schneider.
• Sima, Alexander (2000) Tiere, Pflanzen, Steine und Metalle in den altsüdarabischen Inschriften (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 276–277
• “nard”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

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Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek νάρδος (nárdos).

Noun

νάρδος • (nárdos) m or f (plural νάρδοι)

1. valerian, nard, spikenard ().

Declension

Declension of νάρδος

	singular	plural
nominative	νάρδος •	νάρδοι •
genitive	νάρδου •	νάρδων •
accusative	νάρδο •	νάρδους •
vocative	νάρδε •	νάρδοι •

Further reading

• νάρδος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el