ἀβραμίς
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ἀβραβίς (abrabís), ἄβραμις (ábramis)
Etymology
According to Beekes, either Pre-Greek or a loan from Egyptian
(rm, “tilapia”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.bra.mís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /a.braˈmis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /a.βraˈmis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /a.vraˈmis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /a.vraˈmis/
Noun
ἀβρᾰμῐ́ς • (abramís) f (genitive ἀβρᾰμῐ́δος); third declension
- a kind of mullet salted in Egypt
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ ἀβρᾰμῐ́ς; τῆς ἀβρᾰμῐ́δος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἀβρᾰμῐ́ς hē abramís | τὼ ἀβρᾰμῐ́δε tṑ abramíde | αἱ ἀβρᾰμῐ́δες hai abramídes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἀβρᾰμῐ́δος tês abramídos | τοῖν ἀβρᾰμῐ́δοιν toîn abramídoin | τῶν ἀβρᾰμῐ́δων tôn abramídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἀβρᾰμῐ́δῐ têi abramídi | τοῖν ἀβρᾰμῐ́δοιν toîn abramídoin | ταῖς ἀβρᾰμῐ́σῐ / ἀβρᾰμῐ́σῐν taîs abramísi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἀβρᾰμῐ́δᾰ tḕn abramída | τὼ ἀβρᾰμῐ́δε tṑ abramíde | τᾱ̀ς ἀβρᾰμῐ́δᾰς tā̀s abramídas | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἀβρᾰμῐ́ς abramís | ἀβρᾰμῐ́δε abramíde | ἀβρᾰμῐ́δες abramídes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἀβραμίδιον (abramídion)
Descendants
- → New Latin: Abramis (learned)
Further reading
- “ἀβραμίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀβραμίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀβραμίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- 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