τροχαντήρ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From τροχάζω (trokházō, “to run quickly”) + -τήρ (-tḗr).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tro.kʰan.tɛ̌ːr/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tro.kʰanˈte̝r/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /tro.xanˈtir/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /tro.xanˈtir/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /tro.xanˈdir/
Noun
τροχαντήρ • (trokhantḗr) m (genitive τροχαντῆρος); third declension
- (anatomy) trochanter, i.e. either of two processes at the head of the thigh bone
- part of the stern of a ship
- instrument of torture
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ τροχαντήρ; τοῦ τροχαντῆρος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ τροχαντήρ ho trokhantḗr | τὼ τροχαντῆρε tṑ trokhantêre | οἱ τροχαντῆρες hoi trokhantêres | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ τροχαντῆρος toû trokhantêros | τοῖν τροχαντήροιν toîn trokhantḗroin | τῶν τροχαντήρων tôn trokhantḗrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ τροχαντῆρῐ tôi trokhantêri | τοῖν τροχαντήροιν toîn trokhantḗroin | τοῖς τροχαντῆρσῐ / τροχαντῆρσῐν toîs trokhantêrsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν τροχαντῆρᾰ tòn trokhantêra | τὼ τροχαντῆρε tṑ trokhantêre | τοὺς τροχαντῆρᾰς toùs trokhantêras | ||||||||||
Vocative | τροχαντήρ trokhantḗr | τροχαντῆρε trokhantêre | τροχαντῆρες trokhantêres | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → French: trochanter
- → English: trochanter
References
- “τροχαντήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τροχαντήρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette