κόρυζα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Traditionally compared to Old English hrot (“mucus”) but Beekes doesn't dismiss a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kó.ryː.za/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈko.ry.za/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈko.ry.za/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈko.ry.za/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈko.ri.za/
Noun
κόρῡζᾰ • (kórūza) f (genitive κορῡ́ζης); first declension
- rheum, mucous discharge from the nose
- Synonyms: βλέννα (blénna), λέμφος (lémphos), μύξα (múxa)
- drivelling, stupidity
Inflection
First declension of ἡ κόρῡζᾰ; τῆς κορῡ́ζης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κόρῡζᾰ hē kórūza | τὼ κορῡ́ζᾱ tṑ korū́zā | αἱ κόρῡζαι hai kórūzai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κορῡ́ζης tês korū́zēs | τοῖν κορῡ́ζαιν toîn korū́zain | τῶν κορῡζῶν tôn korūzôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κορῡ́ζῃ têi korū́zēi | τοῖν κορῡ́ζαιν toîn korū́zain | ταῖς κορῡ́ζαις taîs korū́zais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κόρῡζᾰν tḕn kórūzan | τὼ κορῡ́ζᾱ tṑ korū́zā | τᾱ̀ς κορῡ́ζᾱς tā̀s korū́zās | ||||||||||
Vocative | κόρῡζᾰ kórūza | κορῡ́ζᾱ korū́zā | κόρῡζαι kórūzai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- βουκόρῡζᾰ (boukórūza)
- κορῡζᾶς (korūzâs)
- κορῡζᾰ́ω (korūzáō)
- κορῡζιᾷ (korūziâi)
- κορῡζώδης (korūzṓdēs)
Descendants
- → Latin: corȳza
Further reading
- “κόρυζα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κόρυζα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κόρυζα 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