βάκκαρις
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- βάκκαρ (bákkar), βάκχαρ (bákkhar), βάκχαρις (bákkharis)
Etymology
According to a scholium of Aeschylus, the word is from Lydian, whereas Furnée argues for a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bák.ka.ris/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbak.ka.ris/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβa.ka.ris/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈva.ka.ris/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈva.ka.ris/
Noun
βάκκᾰρῐς • (bákkaris) f (genitive βᾰκκάρῐδος); third declension
- wild spikenard (Asarum europaeum)
- sowbread (Cyclamen hederifolium)
- red everlasting (Helichrysum sanguineum)
- unguent made with wild spikenard
Declension
Third declension of ἡ βᾰ́κκᾰρῐς; τῆς βᾰκκᾰ́ρῐδος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ βᾰ́κκᾰρῐς hē bákkaris | τὼ βᾰκκᾰ́ρῐδε tṑ bakkáride | αἱ βᾰκκᾰ́ρῐδες hai bakkárides | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς βᾰκκᾰ́ρῐδος tês bakkáridos | τοῖν βᾰκκᾰρῐ́δοιν toîn bakkarídoin | τῶν βᾰκκᾰρῐ́δων tôn bakkarídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ βᾰκκᾰ́ρῐδῐ têi bakkáridi | τοῖν βᾰκκᾰρῐ́δοιν toîn bakkarídoin | ταῖς βᾰκκᾰ́ρῐσῐ / βᾰκκᾰ́ρῐσῐν taîs bakkárisi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν βᾰκκᾰ́ρῐδᾰ tḕn bakkárida | τὼ βᾰκκᾰ́ρῐδε tṑ bakkáride | τᾱ̀ς βᾰκκᾰ́ρῐδᾰς tā̀s bakkáridas | ||||||||||
Vocative | βᾰ́κκᾰρῐς bákkaris | βᾰκκᾰ́ρῐδε bakkáride | βᾰκκᾰ́ρῐδες bakkárides | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: baccar
Further reading
- “βάκκαρις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βάκκαρις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βάκκαρις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- 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