θλάσπις
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- θλάσπι (thláspi)
Etymology
Unknown. Derivation from θλάω (thláō, “to crush, bruise”) is folk-etymological.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰlás.pis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtʰlas.pis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈθlas.pis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈθlas.pis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈθlas.pis/
Noun
θλάσπῐς • (thláspis) f (genitive θλάσπεως); third declension
- shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ θλᾰ́σπῐς; τῆς θλᾰ́σπεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ θλᾰ́σπῐς hē thláspis | τὼ θλᾰ́σπει tṑ thláspei | αἱ θλᾰ́σπεις hai thláspeis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς θλᾰ́σπεως tês thláspeōs | τοῖν θλᾰσπέοιν toîn thlaspéoin | τῶν θλᾰ́σπεων tôn thláspeōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ θλᾰ́σπει têi thláspei | τοῖν θλᾰσπέοιν toîn thlaspéoin | ταῖς θλᾰ́σπεσῐ / θλᾰ́σπεσῐν taîs thláspesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν θλᾰ́σπῐν tḕn thláspin | τὼ θλᾰ́σπει tṑ thláspei | τᾱ̀ς θλᾰ́σπεις tā̀s thláspeis | ||||||||||
Vocative | θλᾰ́σπῐ thláspi | θλᾰ́σπει thláspei | θλᾰ́σπεις thláspeis | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- θλασπίδιον (thlaspídion)
Descendants
- → Latin: thlaspi
- → Translingual: Thlaspi
References
- θλάσπις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- θλάσπις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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