κόρχορος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κόρκορος (kórkoros)
Etymology
According to Beekes, a reduplicated Pre-Greek formation.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kór.kʰo.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkor.kʰo.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkor.xo.ros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkor.xo.ros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkor.xo.ros/
Noun
κόρχορος • (kórkhoros) m (genitive κορχόρου); second declension
- blue pimpernel (Lysimachia monelli)
- jute (Corchorus olitorius)
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ κόρχορος; τοῦ κορχόρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κόρχορος ho kórkhoros | τὼ κορχόρω tṑ korkhórō | οἱ κόρχοροι hoi kórkhoroi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κορχόρου toû korkhórou | τοῖν κορχόροιν toîn korkhóroin | τῶν κορχόρων tôn korkhórōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κορχόρῳ tôi korkhórōi | κορχόροιν korkhóroin | τοῖς κορχόροις toîs korkhórois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κόρχορον tòn kórkhoron | κορχόρω korkhórō | τοὺς κορχόρους toùs korkhórous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κόρχορε kórkhore | κορχόρω korkhórō | κόρχοροι kórkhoroi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Translingual: Corchorus
Further reading
- κόρχορος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κόρχορος 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