βαλλωτή
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, it's probably from Pre-Greek and related to βαλαύστιον (balaústion, “flower of the pomegranate”), βάλαρις (bálaris) and βάλλις (bállis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bal.lɔː.tɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /bal.loˈte̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /βal.loˈti/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /val.loˈti/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /va.loˈti/
Noun
βᾰλλωτή • (ballōtḗ) f (genitive βᾰλλωτῆς); first declension
- black horehound (Ballota nigra)
- Synonyms: γνοτέρᾱ (gnotérā), μελᾰμπρᾰ́σῐον (melamprásion)
Inflection
First declension of ἡ βᾰλλωτή; τῆς βᾰλλωτῆς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ βᾰλλωτή hē ballōtḗ | τὼ βᾰλλωτᾱ́ tṑ ballōtā́ | αἱ βᾰλλωταί hai ballōtaí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς βᾰλλωτῆς tês ballōtês | τοῖν βᾰλλωταῖν toîn ballōtaîn | τῶν βᾰλλωτῶν tôn ballōtôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ βᾰλλωτῇ têi ballōtêi | τοῖν βᾰλλωταῖν toîn ballōtaîn | ταῖς βᾰλλωταῖς taîs ballōtaîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν βᾰλλωτήν tḕn ballōtḗn | τὼ βᾰλλωτᾱ́ tṑ ballōtā́ | τᾱ̀ς βᾰλλωτᾱ́ς tā̀s ballōtā́s | ||||||||||
Vocative | βᾰλλωτή ballōtḗ | βᾰλλωτᾱ́ ballōtā́ | βᾰλλωταί ballōtaí | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: ballotē
- → Translingual: Ballota
Further reading
- “βαλλωτή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βαλλωτή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βαλλωτή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “βαλλωτή”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 198