στρουθός
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- στροῦθος (stroûthos)
Etymology
The etymology remains highly uncertain, but Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /stroː.tʰós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /struˈtʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /struˈθos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /struˈθos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /struˈθos/
Noun
στρουθός • (strouthós) m or f (genitive στρουθοῦ); second declension
- house sparrow, Passer domesticus
- flatfish, European flounder, Platichthys flesus ( <= Pleuronectes flesus).
- ostrich
Declension
Second declension of ὁ στρουθός; τοῦ στρουθοῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ στρουθός ho strouthós | τὼ στρουθώ tṑ strouthṓ | οἱ στρουθοί hoi strouthoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ στρουθοῦ toû strouthoû | τοῖν στρουθοῖν toîn strouthoîn | τῶν στρουθῶν tôn strouthôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ στρουθῷ tôi strouthôi | τοῖν στρουθοῖν toîn strouthoîn | τοῖς στρουθοῖς toîs strouthoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν στρουθόν tòn strouthón | τὼ στρουθώ tṑ strouthṓ | τοὺς στρουθούς toùs strouthoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | στρουθέ strouthé | στρουθώ strouthṓ | στρουθοί strouthoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- στρουθίζω (strouthízō)
- στρουθίον (strouthíon)
Further reading
- στρουθός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- στρουθός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- στρουθός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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