χρυσῖτις

χρυσῖτις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From χρυσός (khrusós, “silver”) +‎ -ῖτις (-îtis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰryː.sîː.tis/ → /xryˈsi.tis/ → /xriˈsi.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰryː.sîː.tis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰryˈsi.tis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /xryˈsi.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xryˈsi.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xriˈsi.tis/

Noun

χρῡσῖτῐς • (khrūsîtis) f (genitive χρῡσῑ́τῐδος); third declension

1. (metallurgy) flake litharge, a silver ore also containing traces of gold

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ χρῡσῖτῐς; τῆς χρῡσῑ́τῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χρῡσῖτῐς hē khrūsîtis	τὼ χρῡσῑ́τῐδε tṑ khrūsī́tide	αἱ χρῡσῑ́τῐδες hai khrūsī́tides
Genitive	τῆς χρῡσῑ́τῐδος tês khrūsī́tidos	τοῖν χρῡσῑτῐ́δοιν toîn khrūsītídoin	τῶν χρῡσῑτῐ́δων tôn khrūsītídōn
Dative	τῇ χρῡσῑ́τῐδῐ têi khrūsī́tidi	τοῖν χρῡσῑτῐ́δοιν toîn khrūsītídoin	ταῖς χρῡσῑ́τῐσῐ / χρῡσῑ́τῐσῐν taîs khrūsī́tisi(n)
Accusative	τὴν χρῡσῑ́τῐδᾰ tḕn khrūsī́tida	τὼ χρῡσῑ́τῐδε tṑ khrūsī́tide	τᾱ̀ς χρῡσῑ́τῐδᾰς tā̀s khrūsī́tidas
Vocative	χρῡσῖτῐς khrūsîtis	χρῡσῑ́τῐδε khrūsī́tide	χρῡσῑ́τῐδες khrūsī́tides
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Further reading

• χρυσῖτις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• cf. ἀργυρῖτις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press (name of the same ore when only containing silver)