βρίζα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Thracian *briza (“spelt, rye”). Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *breǵʰ-, related to Norwegian brok (“kind of grass”), or related to Sanskrit व्रीहि (vrīhi, “grain, rice”), ὄρυζα (óruza, “rice”), but this is less likely.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bríz.da/ → /ˈβri.za/ → /ˈvri.za/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bríz.da/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbri.za/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβri.za/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvri.za/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvri.za/

Noun

βρίζᾰ • (bríza) f (genitive βρίζης); first declension

1. rye (Secale cereale) in Thrace and Macedonia

Inflection

First declension of ἡ βρῐ́ζᾰ; τῆς βρῐ́ζης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βρῐ́ζᾰ hē bríza	τὼ βρῐ́ζᾱ tṑ brízā	αἱ βρῐ́ζαι hai brízai
Genitive	τῆς βρῐ́ζης tês brízēs	τοῖν βρῐ́ζαιν toîn brízain	τῶν βρῐζῶν tôn brizôn
Dative	τῇ βρῐ́ζῃ têi brízēi	τοῖν βρῐ́ζαιν toîn brízain	ταῖς βρῐ́ζαις taîs brízais
Accusative	τὴν βρῐ́ζᾰν tḕn brízan	τὼ βρῐ́ζᾱ tṑ brízā	τᾱ̀ς βρῐ́ζᾱς tā̀s brízās
Vocative	βρῐ́ζᾰ bríza	βρῐ́ζᾱ brízā	βρῐ́ζαι brízai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Briza

Further reading

• “βρίζα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βρίζα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Whatmough, Joshua (1950) The Dialects of Ancient Gaul, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, published 1970, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1185
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.