βατίς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
If the word is identical with βότις (bótis, “kind of fish”), the vowel interchange points to a Pre-Greek origin, which is to be expected for a fish name anyhow.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ba.tís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /baˈtis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /βaˈtis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /vaˈtis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /vaˈtis/
Noun
βᾰτῐ́ς • (batís) f (genitive βᾰτῐ́δος); third declension
- skate or ray
- stonechat (bird of the genus Saxicola)
- samphire (Crithmum maritimum)
- Synonym: κρῆθμον (krêthmon)
Declension
Third declension of ἡ βᾰτῐ́ς; τῆς βᾰτῐ́δος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ βᾰτῐ́ς hē batís | τὼ βᾰτῐ́δε tṑ batíde | αἱ βᾰτῐ́δες hai batídes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς βᾰτῐ́δος tês batídos | τοῖν βᾰτῐ́δοιν toîn batídoin | τῶν βᾰτῐ́δων tôn batídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ βᾰτῐ́δῐ têi batídi | τοῖν βᾰτῐ́δοιν toîn batídoin | ταῖς βᾰτῐ́σῐ / βᾰτῐ́σῐν taîs batísi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν βᾰτῐ́δᾰ tḕn batída | τὼ βᾰτῐ́δε tṑ batíde | τᾱ̀ς βᾰτῐ́δᾰς tā̀s batídas | ||||||||||
Vocative | βᾰτῐ́ς batís | βᾰτῐ́δε batíde | βᾰτῐ́δες batídes | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- βατίς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βατίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βατίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
- 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