τέτριξ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably onomatopoeic. Similar bird names are Lithuanian tetervà (“grey hen”), Proto-Slavic *tetervь (“black grouse”), Proto-Iranian *tatr̥wáh (“pheasant”) and Sanskrit तित्तिर (tittira, “partridge”). From the same onomatopoeic root are τετράων (tetráōn), τέτραξ (tétrax), τατύρας (tatúras), τέταρος (tétaros) and τετράζω (tetrázō).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /té.triks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈte.triks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈte.triks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈte.triks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈte.triks/
Noun
τέτρῐξ • (tétrix) f (genitive τέτρῐγος); third declension
- pipit (bird of the genus Anthus)
- Synonym: οὖραξ (oûrax)
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ τέτρῐξ; τῆς τέτρῐγος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ τέτρῐξ hē tétrix | τὼ τέτρῐγε tṑ tétrige | αἱ τέτρῐγες hai tétriges | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς τέτρῐγος tês tétrigos | τοῖν τετρῐ́γοιν toîn tetrígoin | τῶν τετρῐ́γων tôn tetrígōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ τέτρῐγῐ têi tétrigi | τοῖν τετρῐ́γοιν toîn tetrígoin | ταῖς τέτρῐξῐ / τέτρῐξῐν taîs tétrixi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν τέτρῐγᾰ tḕn tétriga | τὼ τέτρῐγε tṑ tétrige | τᾱ̀ς τέτρῐγᾰς tā̀s tétrigas | ||||||||||
Vocative | τέτρῐξ tétrix | τέτρῐγε tétrige | τέτρῐγες tétriges | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Translingual: Tetrix
Further reading
- “τέτριξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τέτριξ 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