εὔτηκτος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From εὖ (eû, “well”) + τήκω (tḗkō, “to melt”) + -τος (-tos).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ěu̯.tɛːk.tos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈew.te̝k.tos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈeɸ.tik.tos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈef.tik.tos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈef.tik.tos/
Adjective
εὔτηκτος • (eútēktos) m or f (neuter εὔτηκτον); second declension
- easily melted or dissolved
- Aristotle, Problems 1.50
Inflection
Second declension of εὔτηκτος; εὔτηκτον (Attic)
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
Nominative | εὔτηκτος eútēktos | εὔτηκτον eútēkton | εὐτήκτω eutḗktō | εὐτήκτω eutḗktō | εὔτηκτοι eútēktoi | εὔτηκτᾰ eútēkta | ||||||||
Genitive | εὐτήκτου eutḗktou | εὐτήκτου eutḗktou | εὐτήκτοιν eutḗktoin | εὐτήκτοιν eutḗktoin | εὐτήκτων eutḗktōn | εὐτήκτων eutḗktōn | ||||||||
Dative | εὐτήκτῳ eutḗktōi | εὐτήκτῳ eutḗktōi | εὐτήκτοιν eutḗktoin | εὐτήκτοιν eutḗktoin | εὐτήκτοις eutḗktois | εὐτήκτοις eutḗktois | ||||||||
Accusative | εὔτηκτον eútēkton | εὔτηκτον eútēkton | εὐτήκτω eutḗktō | εὐτήκτω eutḗktō | εὐτήκτους eutḗktous | εὔτηκτᾰ eútēkta | ||||||||
Vocative | εὔτηκτε eútēkte | εὔτηκτον eútēkton | εὐτήκτω eutḗktō | εὐτήκτω eutḗktō | εὔτηκτοι eútēktoi | εὔτηκτᾰ eútēkta | ||||||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
εὐτήκτως eutḗktōs | εὐτηκτότερος eutēktóteros | εὐτηκτότᾰτος eutēktótatos | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- English: eutectic
Further reading
- “εὔτηκτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- εὔτηκτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette