θρίδαξ
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- θίδραξ (thídrax), θρόδαξ (thródax), θρύδαξ (thrúdax)
Etymology
According to Nehring, it is Pre-Greek. Because of the typical leaves, Strömberg thinks of θρῖον (thrîon, “fig leaf”) and compares οἶδαξ (oîdax, “unripe figs”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰrîː.naks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtʰri.naks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈθri.naks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈθri.naks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈθri.naks/
Noun
θρῐ́δᾰξ • (thrídax) f (genitive θρῐ́δᾰκος); third declension
- lettuce (Lactuca sativa)
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ θρῐ́δᾰξ; τῆς θρῐ́δᾰκος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ θρῐ́δᾰξ hē thrídax | τὼ θρῐ́δᾰκε tṑ thrídake | αἱ θρῐ́δᾰκες hai thrídakes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς θρῐ́δᾰκος tês thrídakos | τοῖν θρῐδᾰ́κοιν toîn thridákoin | τῶν θρῐδᾰ́κων tôn thridákōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ θρῐ́δᾰκῐ têi thrídaki | θρῐδᾰ́κοιν thridákoin | ταῖς θρῐ́δᾰξῐ / θρῐ́δᾰξῐν taîs thrídaxi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν θρῐ́δᾰκᾰ tḕn thrídaka | θρῐ́δᾰκε thrídake | τᾱ̀ς θρῐ́δᾰκᾰς tā̀s thrídakas | ||||||||||
Vocative | θρῐ́δᾰξ thrídax | θρῐ́δᾰκε thrídake | θρῐ́δᾰκες thrídakes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- θριδακηΐς (thridakēḯs)
- θριδακίας (thridakías)
- θριδακίνη (thridakínē)
- θριδακινίς (thridakinís)
- θριδάκινος (thridákinos)
- θριδάκιον (thridákion)
- θριδακίσκα (thridakíska)
- θριδακώδης (thridakṓdēs)
Descendants
- Greek: θρίδακας (thrídakas)
- → Latin: thridax
Further reading
- θρίδαξ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- θρίδαξ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θρίδαξ 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