νίτρον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- λῐ́τρον (lítron) – Homeric, Attic
Etymology
Borrowed from Semitic. Compare Hebrew נֶתֶר (néter, “washing soda”), Arabic نطرون (naṭrūn, “natron”). All ultimately from Egyptian nṯrj:
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Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ní.tron/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈni.tron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈni.tron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈni.tron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈni.tron/
Noun
νῐ́τρον • (nítron) n (genitive νῐ́τρου); second declension
- sodium carbonate
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ νῐ́τρον; τοῦ νῐ́τρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ νῐ́τρον tò nítron | τὼ νῐ́τρω tṑ nítrō | τᾰ̀ νῐ́τρᾰ tà nítra | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ νῐ́τρου toû nítrou | τοῖν νῐ́τροιν toîn nítroin | τῶν νῐ́τρων tôn nítrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ νῐ́τρῳ tôi nítrōi | τοῖν νῐ́τροιν toîn nítroin | τοῖς νῐ́τροις toîs nítrois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ νῐ́τρον tò nítron | τὼ νῐ́τρω tṑ nítrō | τᾰ̀ νῐ́τρᾰ tà nítra | ||||||||||
Vocative | νῐ́τρον nítron | νῐ́τρω nítrō | νῐ́τρᾰ nítra | ||||||||||
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References
- νίτρον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- νίτρον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- νίτρον 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