τεύκριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Maybe from an original color term, found also in τευθίς (teuthís, “squid”) and τεύθριον (teúthrion, “felty germander”) or from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /těu̯.kri.on/ → /ˈteɸ.kri.on/ → /ˈtef.kri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /těu̯.kri.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtew.kri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈteɸ.kri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈtef.kri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈtef.kri.on/

Noun

τεύκρῐον • (teúkrion) n (genitive τευκρῐ́ου); second declension

1. tree germander (Teucrium fruticans)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ τεύκρῐον; τοῦ τευκρῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ τεύκρῐον tò teúkrion	τὼ τευκρῐ́ω tṑ teukríō	τᾰ̀ τεύκρῐᾰ tà teúkria
Genitive	τοῦ τευκρῐ́ου toû teukríou	τοῖν τευκρῐ́οιν toîn teukríoin	τῶν τευκρῐ́ων tôn teukríōn
Dative	τῷ τευκρῐ́ῳ tôi teukríōi	τοῖν τευκρῐ́οιν toîn teukríoin	τοῖς τευκρῐ́οις toîs teukríois
Accusative	τὸ τεύκρῐον tò teúkrion	τὼ τευκρῐ́ω tṑ teukríō	τᾰ̀ τεύκρῐᾰ tà teúkria
Vocative	τεύκρῐον teúkrion	τευκρῐ́ω teukríō	τεύκρῐᾰ teúkria
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Teucrium

Further reading

• “τεύκριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τεύκριον 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, →ISBN