μαρτιχόρας
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- μαντιχώρας (mantikhṓras), μαρτιοχώρας (martiokhṓras)
Etymology
From Iranian; compare Old Persian 𐎶𐎼𐎫𐎡𐎹 (m-r-t-i-y /martiya/, “man, mortal”) (from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die”)) and Avestan 𐬓𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (xᵛaraiti, “to consume, eat”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mar.ti.kʰó.raːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /mar.tiˈkʰo.ras/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /mar.tiˈxo.ras/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /mar.tiˈxo.ras/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /mar.tiˈxo.ras/
Noun
μαρτῐχόρᾱς • (martikhórās) m (genitive μαρτῐχόρου); first declension
- man-eater, probably the tiger
Inflection
First declension of ὁ μαρτῐχόρᾱς; τοῦ μαρτῐχόρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μαρτῐχόρᾱς ho martikhórās | τὼ μαρτῐχόρᾱ tṑ martikhórā | οἱ μαρτῐχόραι hoi martikhórai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μαρτῐχόρου toû martikhórou | τοῖν μαρτῐχόραιν toîn martikhórain | τῶν μαρτῐχορῶν tôn martikhorôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μαρτῐχόρᾳ tôi martikhórāi | τοῖν μαρτῐχόραιν toîn martikhórain | τοῖς μαρτῐχόραις toîs martikhórais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μαρτῐχόρᾱν tòn martikhórān | τὼ μαρτῐχόρᾱ tṑ martikhórā | τοὺς μαρτῐχόρᾱς toùs martikhórās | ||||||||||
Vocative | μαρτῐχόρᾱ martikhórā | μαρτῐχόρᾱ martikhórā | μαρτῐχόραι martikhórai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- English: manticore
Further reading
- μαρτιχόρας in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μαρτιχόρας 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