κίτρον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin citrum (“citron”) < citrus, itself probably via Etruscan from Ancient Greek κέδρος (kédros).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kí.tron/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈki.tron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈci.tron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈci.tron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈci.tron/
Noun
κῐ́τρον • (kítron) n (genitive κῐ́τρου); second declension
- (Koine) fruit of the citron tree
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ κῐ́τρον; τοῦ κῐ́τρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ κῐ́τρον tò kítron | τὼ κῐ́τρω tṑ kítrō | τᾰ̀ κῐ́τρᾰ tà kítra | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κῐ́τρου toû kítrou | τοῖν κῐ́τροιν toîn kítroin | τῶν κῐ́τρων tôn kítrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κῐ́τρῳ tôi kítrōi | τοῖν κῐ́τροιν toîn kítroin | τοῖς κῐ́τροις toîs kítrois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ κῐ́τρον tò kítron | τὼ κῐ́τρω tṑ kítrō | τᾰ̀ κῐ́τρᾰ tà kítra | ||||||||||
Vocative | κῐ́τρον kítron | κῐ́τρω kítrō | κῐ́τρᾰ kítra | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κιτρᾶτον (kitrâton)
- κιτρέα (kitréa)
- κίτρινος (kítrinos)
- κίτριον (kítrion)
- κιτρόμηλον (kitrómēlon)
- κιτρόφυλλον (kitróphullon)
- κιτρόφυτον (kitróphuton)
- κιτρόχρους (kitrókhrous)
Descendants
- Greek: κίτρο (kítro)
- → Old Armenian: կիտրոն (kitron)
Further reading
- “κίτρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κίτρον 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