ἀκτέα
See also: ακτέα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ἀκταία (aktaía), ἀκτέος (aktéos), ἀκτῆ (aktê)
Etymology
Unknown. The suffix -έᾱ (-éā) is frequent in tree names, like ἰτέᾱ (itéā, “willow”) and πτελέᾱ (pteléā, “elm”). Witczak connects the word with Old Armenian հացի (hacʿi, “ash tree”), which he disassociates from ὀξύα (oxúa, “beech”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ak.té.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /akˈte.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /akˈte.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /akˈte.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /akˈte.a/
Noun
ἀκτέᾱ • (aktéā) f (genitive ἀκτέᾱς); first declension
- elder (Sambucus nigra)
Inflection
First declension of ἡ ἀκτέᾱ; τῆς ἀκτέᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἀκτέᾱ hē aktéā | τὼ ἀκτέᾱ tṑ aktéā | αἱ ἀκτέαι hai aktéai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἀκτέᾱς tês aktéās | τοῖν ἀκτέαιν toîn aktéain | τῶν ἀκτεῶν tôn akteôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἀκτέᾳ têi aktéāi | τοῖν ἀκτέαιν toîn aktéain | ταῖς ἀκτέαις taîs aktéais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἀκτέᾱν tḕn aktéān | τὼ ἀκτέᾱ tṑ aktéā | τᾱ̀ς ἀκτέᾱς tā̀s aktéās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἀκτέᾱ aktéā | ἀκτέᾱ aktéā | ἀκτέαι aktéai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἄκτινος (áktinos)
- χαμαιάκτη (khamaiáktē)
Descendants
- Greek: ακτέα (aktéa)
- → Latin: actē
Further reading
- “ἀκτέα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀκτέα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀκτέα 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