τραγέλαφος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From τράγος (trágos, “billy goat”) + ἔλαφος (élaphos, “deer”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tra.ɡé.la.pʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /traˈɡe.la.pʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /traˈʝe.la.ɸos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /traˈʝe.la.fos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /traˈʝe.la.fos/
Noun
τρᾰγέλᾰφος • (tragélaphos) m (genitive τρᾰγελᾰ́φου); second declension
- tragelaphus, a fictional animal, half goat, half stag
- drinking-cup, which had such creature worked in relief
- thingamabob, whatsaname
- kind of wild goat or antelope
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ τρᾰγέλᾰφος; τοῦ τρᾰγελᾰ́φου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ τρᾰγέλᾰφος ho tragélaphos | τὼ τρᾰγελᾰ́φω tṑ trageláphō | οἱ τρᾰγέλᾰφοι hoi tragélaphoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ τρᾰγελᾰ́φου toû trageláphou | τοῖν τρᾰγελᾰ́φοιν toîn trageláphoin | τῶν τρᾰγελᾰ́φων tôn trageláphōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ τρᾰγελᾰ́φῳ tôi trageláphōi | τοῖν τρᾰγελᾰ́φοιν toîn trageláphoin | τοῖς τρᾰγελᾰ́φοις toîs trageláphois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν τρᾰγέλᾰφον tòn tragélaphon | τὼ τρᾰγελᾰ́φω tṑ trageláphō | τοὺς τρᾰγελᾰ́φους toùs trageláphous | ||||||||||
Vocative | τρᾰγέλᾰφε tragélaphe | τρᾰγελᾰ́φω trageláphō | τρᾰγέλᾰφοι tragélaphoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: tragelaphus
- → Translingual: Tragelaphus
Further reading
- “τραγέλαφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τραγέλαφος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette