μέσπιλον
Ancient Greek
editAlternative forms
edit- μεσπίλη (mespílē)
Etymology
editA loanword of Pre-Greek origin[1] because no Indo-European cognates can be found, as plant names are more frequently borrowed and, particularly concerning this term, the medlar is native to the regions of Iran, southwest Asia and southeastern Europe and its Black Sea coasts so that it was unknown to the speakers of Proto-Indo-European and borrowing became necessary. Possibly a cognate to Proto-Kartvelian *sxmarṭl- (“medlar”) with metathesis of the initial consonants.
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /més.pi.lon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmes.pi.lon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmes.pi.lon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmes.pi.lon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmes.pi.lon/
Noun
editμέσπιλον • (méspilon) n (genitive μεσπίλου); second declension
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ μέσπῐλον tò méspilon |
τὼ μεσπῐ́λω tṑ mespílō |
τᾰ̀ μέσπῐλᾰ tà méspila | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μεσπῐ́λου toû mespílou |
τοῖν μεσπῐ́λοιν toîn mespíloin |
τῶν μεσπῐ́λων tôn mespílōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μεσπῐ́λῳ tôi mespílōi |
τοῖν μεσπῐ́λοιν toîn mespíloin |
τοῖς μεσπῐ́λοις toîs mespílois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ μέσπῐλον tò méspilon |
τὼ μεσπῐ́λω tṑ mespílō |
τᾰ̀ μέσπῐλᾰ tà méspila | ||||||||||
Vocative | μέσπῐλον méspilon |
μεσπῐ́λω mespílō |
μέσπῐλᾰ méspila | ||||||||||
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Descendants
edit- Byzantine Greek: μούσπουλον (moúspoulon)
- Greek: μούσμουλο (moúsmoulo) (see there for further descendants)
- → Latin: mespilum, mespila, *nespila, *nespira, *nespirum (see there for further descendants)
References
edit- ^ Frisk, Hjalmar (1970) “μέσπιλον”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 215
Further reading
edit- “μέσπιλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μέσπιλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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