ἐλατήριον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Neuter form of ἐλατήριος (elatḗrios, “driving away”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /e.la.tɛ̌ː.ri.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /e.laˈte̝.ri.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /e.laˈti.ri.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /e.laˈti.ri.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /e.laˈti.ri.on/
Noun
ἐλᾰτήρῐον • (elatḗrion) n (genitive ἐλᾰτηρῐ́ου); second declension
- squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium)
- Synonyms: σίκυς άγριος m (síkus ágrios), βουβάλιον n (boubálion), νότιον n (nótion), φέρομβρον n (phérombron), βάλλις f (bállis), σκόπιον n (skópion), γρῦνον n (grûnon), πευκέδανον n (peukédanon), σκόρπιον n (skórpion)
- the drug prepared from the squirting cucumber
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ ἐλᾰτήρῐον; τοῦ ἐλᾰτηρῐ́ου (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ἐλᾰτήρῐον tò elatḗrion | τὼ ἐλᾰτηρῐ́ω tṑ elatēríō | τᾰ̀ ἐλᾰτήρῐᾰ tà elatḗria | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ἐλᾰτηρῐ́ου toû elatēríou | τοῖν ἐλᾰτηρῐ́οιν toîn elatēríoin | τῶν ἐλᾰτηρῐ́ων tôn elatēríōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ἐλᾰτηρῐ́ῳ tôi elatēríōi | τοῖν ἐλᾰτηρῐ́οιν toîn elatēríoin | τοῖς ἐλᾰτηρῐ́οις toîs elatēríois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ἐλᾰτήρῐον tò elatḗrion | τὼ ἐλᾰτηρῐ́ω tṑ elatēríō | τᾰ̀ ἐλᾰτήρῐᾰ tà elatḗria | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἐλᾰτήρῐον elatḗrion | ἐλᾰτηρῐ́ω elatēríō | ἐλᾰτήρῐᾰ elatḗria | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: elatērium
Further reading
- “ἐλατήριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἐλατήριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐλατήριον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- “σίκυς ἄγριος – Ecballium elaterium”, in Dioscórides Interactivo (in Spanish), 2023
- Langkavel, Bernhard (1866) Botanik der späteren Griechen vom dritten bis dreizehnten Jahrhunderte (in German), Berlin: F. Berggold, page 25