ἀσφόδελος
See also: ἀσφοδελός
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- σποδελός (spodelós)
- σφοδελός (sphodelós)
Etymology
Borrowed Pre-Greek word, as is shown by the variants. Furnée further compares σφονδύλιον (sphondúlion), which would show pre-nasalization. A speculative attempt by Biraud, who finds the same suffix in στυφελός (stuphelós), ζάφελος (záphelos) and ῥάκελος (rhákelos).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /as.pʰó.de.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /asˈpʰo.de.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /asˈɸo.ðe.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /asˈfo.ðe.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /asˈfo.ðe.los/
Noun
ἀσφόδελος • (asphódelos) m (genitive ἀσφόδελου); second declension
- branched asphodel (Asphodelus ramosus)
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ ἀσφόδελος; τοῦ ἀσφοδέλου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ἀσφόδελος ho asphódelos | τὼ ἀσφοδέλω tṑ asphodélō | οἱ ἀσφόδελοι hoi asphódeloi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ἀσφοδέλου toû asphodélou | τοῖν ἀσφοδέλοιν toîn asphodéloin | τῶν ἀσφοδέλων tôn asphodélōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ἀσφοδέλῳ tôi asphodélōi | τοῖν ἀσφοδέλοιν toîn asphodéloin | τοῖς ἀσφοδέλοις toîs asphodélois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ἀσφόδελον tòn asphódelon | τὼ ἀσφοδέλω tṑ asphodélō | τοὺς ἀσφοδέλους toùs asphodélous | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἀσφόδελε asphódele | ἀσφοδέλω asphodélō | ἀσφόδελοι asphódeloi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἀσφοδέλινος (asphodélinos)
- ἀσφοδελός (asphodelós)
- ἀσφοδελώδης (asphodelṓdēs)
Descendants
- Greek: ασφοδίλι (asfodíli)
- → English: asphodel
- → Latin: asphodelus
- Medieval Latin: affodillus
- → Middle English: affodill
- English: daffodil
- → Middle English: affodill
- Catalan: asfòdel
- French: asphodèle
- Galician: asfódelo
- Italian: asfodelo
- Occitan: asfodèl
- Portuguese: asfódelo
- Spanish: asfódelo
- → Translingual: Asphodelus
- Medieval Latin: affodillus
References
- “ἀσφόδελος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀσφόδελος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀσφόδελος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀσφόδελος 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