ζέρνα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Lewy, from a Semitic source common to Hebrew זֶרַע (zéra‛, “seed”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /zér.na/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈzer.na/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈzer.na/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈzer.na/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈzer.na/
Noun
ζέρνᾰ • (zérna) f (genitive ζέρνης); first declension
- galingale (Cyperus longus)
- Synonym: κύπειρον (kúpeiron)
Inflection
First declension of ἡ ζέρνᾰ; τῆς ζέρνης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ζέρνᾰ hē zérna | τὼ ζέρνᾱ tṑ zérnā | αἱ ζέρναι hai zérnai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ζέρνης tês zérnēs | τοῖν ζέρναιν toîn zérnain | τῶν ζερνῶν tôn zernôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ζέρνῃ têi zérnēi | τοῖν ζέρναιν toîn zérnain | ταῖς ζέρναις taîs zérnais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ζέρνᾰν tḕn zérnan | τὼ ζέρνᾱ tṑ zérnā | τᾱ̀ς ζέρνᾱς tā̀s zérnās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ζέρνᾰ zérna | ζέρνᾱ zérnā | ζέρναι zérnai | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “ζέρνα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ζέρνα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Lewy, Heinrich (1895) Die semitischen Fremdwörter im Griechischen (in German), Berlin: R. Gaertner’s Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 33