ἀτρακτυλίς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀτρακτυλλίς (atraktullís), ἀτράκτῡλον (atráktūlon)

Etymology

From ἄτρακτος (átraktos, “spindle”), because this plant was used for making spindles.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.trak.ty.lís/ → /a.trak.tyˈlis/ → /a.trak.tiˈlis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.trak.ty.lís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.trak.tyˈlis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.trak.tyˈlis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.trak.tyˈlis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.trak.tiˈlis/

Noun

ἀτρᾰκτῠλῐ́ς • (atraktulís) f (genitive ἀτρᾰκτῠλῐ́δος); third declension

1. saffron thistle (Carthamus lanatus)

   Synonym: ἀσπῐ́δῐον (aspídion)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ἀτρᾰκτῠλῐ́ς; τῆς ἀτρᾰκτῠλῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀτρᾰκτῠλῐ́ς hē atraktulís	τὼ ἀτρᾰκτῠλῐ́δε tṑ atraktulíde	αἱ ἀτρᾰκτῠλῐ́δες hai atraktulídes
Genitive	τῆς ἀτρᾰκτῠλῐ́δος tês atraktulídos	τοῖν ἀτρᾰκτῠλῐ́δοιν toîn atraktulídoin	τῶν ἀτρᾰκτῠλῐ́δων tôn atraktulídōn
Dative	τῇ ἀτρᾰκτῠλῐ́δῐ têi atraktulídi	τοῖν ἀτρᾰκτῠλῐ́δοιν toîn atraktulídoin	ταῖς ἀτρᾰκτῠλῐ́σῐ / ἀτρᾰκτῠλῐ́σῐν taîs atraktulísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἀτρᾰκτῠλῐ́δᾰ tḕn atraktulída	τὼ ἀτρᾰκτῠλῐ́δε tṑ atraktulíde	τᾱ̀ς ἀτρᾰκτῠλῐ́δᾰς tā̀s atraktulídas
Vocative	ἀτρᾰκτῠλῐ́ς atraktulís	ἀτρᾰκτῠλῐ́δε atraktulíde	ἀτρᾰκτῠλῐ́δες atraktulídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• → Latin: atractylis
  • → Italian: atrattile
• → Translingual: Atractylis

Further reading

• “ἀτρακτυλίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀτρακτυλίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀτρακτυλίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)