τρυτάνη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From τρῡ́ω (trū́ō, “to wear down, exhaust”) + -ᾰ́νη (-ánē, instrumental nominal suffix); it probably refers to the opening in which the tongue moves.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tryː.tá.nɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tryˈta.ne̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /tryˈta.ni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /tryˈta.ni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /triˈta.ni/
Noun
τρῡτᾰ́νη • (trūtánē) f (genitive τρῡτᾰ́νης); first declension
- balance, pair of scales
Inflection
First declension of ἡ τρῡτᾰ́νη; τῆς τρῡτᾰ́νης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ τρῡτᾰ́νη hē trūtánē | τὼ τρῡτᾰ́νᾱ tṑ trūtánā | αἱ τρῡτᾰ́ναι hai trūtánai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς τρῡτᾰ́νης tês trūtánēs | τοῖν τρῡτᾰ́ναιν toîn trūtánain | τῶν τρῡτᾰνῶν tôn trūtanôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ τρῡτᾰ́νῃ têi trūtánēi | τοῖν τρῡτᾰ́ναιν toîn trūtánain | ταῖς τρῡτᾰ́ναις taîs trūtánais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν τρῡτᾰ́νην tḕn trūtánēn | τὼ τρῡτᾰ́νᾱ tṑ trūtánā | τᾱ̀ς τρῡτᾰ́νᾱς tā̀s trūtánās | ||||||||||
Vocative | τρῡτᾰ́νη trūtánē | τρῡτᾰ́νᾱ trūtánā | τρῡτᾰ́ναι trūtánai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- τρῡτανεύω (trūtaneúō)
Descendants
- → Latin: trutina
References
- “τρυτάνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τρυτάνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τρυτάνη 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