φαρκίς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The word has been compared with Latin fricō (“I rub, chafe”), Lithuanian brūkis (“stroke, line”) and braūkti (“to strike, rub”), but this is formally hardly possible. Possibly from Pre-Greek. The connection with φορκόν (phorkón, “grey; wrinkled”) is quite uncertain.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰar.kǐːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pʰarˈkis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ɸarˈcis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /farˈcis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /farˈcis/
Noun
φαρκῑ́ς • (pharkī́s) f (genitive φαρκῖδος); third declension
- wrinkle, crease in the skin
- Synonym: ῥυτίς (rhutís)
Declension
Third declension of ἡ φαρκῑ́ς; τῆς φαρκῖδος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ φαρκῑ́ς hē pharkī́s | τὼ φαρκῖδε tṑ pharkîde | αἱ φαρκῖδες hai pharkîdes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς φαρκῖδος tês pharkîdos | τοῖν φαρκῑ́δοιν toîn pharkī́doin | τῶν φαρκῑ́δων tôn pharkī́dōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ φαρκῖδῐ têi pharkîdi | τοῖν φαρκῑ́δοιν toîn pharkī́doin | ταῖς φαρκῖσῐ / φαρκῖσῐν taîs pharkîsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν φαρκῖδᾰ tḕn pharkîda | τὼ φαρκῖδε tṑ pharkîde | τᾱ̀ς φαρκῖδᾰς tā̀s pharkîdas | ||||||||||
Vocative | φαρκῑ́ς pharkī́s | φαρκῖδε pharkîde | φαρκῖδες pharkîdes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- φαρκῑδόομαι (pharkīdóomai)
- φαρκῑδώδης (pharkīdṓdēs)
References
- “φαρκίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- φαρκίς 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