ἀσάμινθος

ἀσάμινθος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.sá.min.tʰos/ → /aˈsa.min.θos/ → /aˈsa.min.θos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.sá.min.tʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈsa.min.tʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈsa.min.θos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈsa.min.θos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈsa.min.θos/

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Noun

ἀσάμινθος • (asáminthos) f (genitive ἀσάμινθου); second declension

1. A bathtub

Declension

Second declension of ἡ ἀσάμινθος; τῆς ἀσαμίνθου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀσάμινθος hē asáminthos	τὼ ἀσαμίνθω tṑ asamínthō	αἱ ἀσάμινθοι hai asáminthoi
Genitive	τῆς ἀσαμίνθου tês asamínthou	τοῖν ἀσαμίνθοιν toîn asamínthoin	τῶν ἀσαμίνθων tôn asamínthōn
Dative	τῇ ἀσαμίνθῳ têi asamínthōi	τοῖν ἀσαμίνθοιν toîn asamínthoin	ταῖς ἀσαμίνθοις taîs asamínthois
Accusative	τὴν ἀσάμινθον tḕn asáminthon	τὼ ἀσαμίνθω tṑ asamínthō	τᾱ̀ς ἀσαμίνθους tā̀s asamínthous
Vocative	ἀσάμινθε asáminthe	ἀσαμίνθω asamínthō	ἀσάμινθοι asáminthoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• λουτήρ (loutḗr)
• πύελος (púelos)

Further reading

• ἀσάμινθος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀσάμινθος 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