ἄφθα
See also: άφθα
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
A term first attested in Hippokrates, with doubt connected to ἅπτω (háptō, “to burn or to fasten, join”). Possibly a technical loan with physicians from Aramaic with emphatic state ending, later attested only in one particular meaning in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic אַפְצָא (ʾap̄ṣā), Classical Syriac ܐܱܦܨܳܐ (ʾap̄ṣā, “oakgalls”), verb אֲפַץ (ʾap̄aṣ, “to dress with gallnut juice”), but more generally Mishnaic Hebrew אָפַץ (ʾāp̄aṣ), אָפַס (ʾāp̄as, “to press, to squeeze”). ἀψίς (apsís), ἁψίς (hapsís, “net, mesh; bow”) is also only doubtingly derived from ἅπτω (háptō, “to fasten, join”).
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ápʰ.tʰa/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈapʰ.tʰa/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈaɸ.θa/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈaf.θa/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈaf.θa/
Noun edit
ἄφθᾰ • (áphtha) f (genitive ἄφθης); first declension
- (pathology, chiefly in the plural) aphtha, mouth ulcer, thrush
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ᾰ̓́φθᾰ hē áphtha |
τὼ ᾰ̓́φθᾱ tṑ áphthā |
αἱ ᾰ̓́φθαι hai áphthai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ᾰ̓́φθης tês áphthēs |
τοῖν ᾰ̓́φθαιν toîn áphthain |
τῶν ᾰ̓φθῶν tôn aphthôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ᾰ̓́φθῃ têi áphthēi |
τοῖν ᾰ̓́φθαιν toîn áphthain |
ταῖς ᾰ̓́φθαις taîs áphthais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ᾰ̓́φθᾰν tḕn áphthan |
τὼ ᾰ̓́φθᾱ tṑ áphthā |
τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓́φθᾱς tā̀s áphthās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ᾰ̓́φθᾰ áphtha |
ᾰ̓́φθᾱ áphthā |
ᾰ̓́φθαι áphthai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → English: aphtha
- → French: aphte
- → German: Aphthe
- → Greek: άφθα (áftha)
- → Italian: afta
- → Portuguese: afta
- → Romanian: aftă
Further reading edit
- “ἄφθα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἄφθα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄφθα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- ἄφθα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- 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, from Pre-Greek because of the group -φθ-
- Frisk, Hjalmar (1960) “ἄφθα”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 195
- Frisk, Hjalmar (1960) “ἁψίς”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 204
- Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 107a