ὄρυζα

See also: όρυζα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὄρυζον (óruzon)

Etymology

A borrowing from an Eastern Iranian language. See the Iranian forms in Middle Persian blnc (/⁠brinǰ⁠/), especially the forms without the nasal infix.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ó.ryz.da/ → /ˈo.ry.za/ → /ˈo.ri.za/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ó.ryz.da/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ry.za/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ry.za/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ry.za/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ri.za/

Noun

ὄρυζᾰ • (óruza) f (genitive ὀρύζης); first declension

1. rice (Oryza sativa)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ὄρυζᾰ; τῆς ὀρύζης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὄρυζᾰ hē óruza	τὼ ὀρύζᾱ tṑ orúzā	αἱ ὄρυζαι hai óruzai
Genitive	τῆς ὀρύζης tês orúzēs	τοῖν ὀρύζαιν toîn orúzain	τῶν ὀρυζῶν tôn oruzôn
Dative	τῇ ὀρύζῃ têi orúzēi	τοῖν ὀρύζαιν toîn orúzain	ταῖς ὀρύζαις taîs orúzais
Accusative	τὴν ὄρυζᾰν tḕn óruzan	τὼ ὀρύζᾱ tṑ orúzā	τᾱ̀ς ὀρύζᾱς tā̀s orúzās
Vocative	ὄρυζᾰ óruza	ὀρύζᾱ orúzā	ὄρυζαι óruzai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὀρυζοτροφέω (oruzotrophéō)
• ὀρύζιον (orúzion)

Related terms

• ὀρίνδης (oríndēs)

Descendants

• Greek: όρυζα (óryza)
• → Arabic: أَرُزّ (ʔaruzz), رُزّ (ruzz)
  • Hijazi Arabic: رُز (ruzz)
  • Andalusian Arabic: روز (ráwz)
    • → Old Spanish: arroz
      • Spanish: arroz
        • → Navajo: alóós
      • Ladino: arroz
    • → Portuguese: arroz
      • → Kaingang: aronh
  • → Middle Armenian: ռուզ (ṙuz), ըռուզ (əṙuz)
• → Aramaic: אורז (ˀwrz /⁠ˀŏroz⁠/), ארוזא (ˀrwzˀ /⁠ˀurŭzā⁠/)
  • Classical Syriac: ܐܘܪܘܙܐ (ʾōrūzā)
• → Hebrew: אורז / אֹרֶז ('órez)
• → Latin: orīza, oryza, (Late Latin) risus
  • → Bulgarian: ориз (oriz)
  • → Macedonian: ориз (oriz)
  • → Middle High German: rīs
    • German: Reis
    • → Polish: ryż
      • → Ukrainian: риж (ryž)
    • → Latvian: rīss
  • → Middle Low German: rīs
    • → Old Norse: rís
      • Danish: ris
      • Faroese: rís
      • Icelandic: hrís
      • Norwegian Bokmål: ris
      • Norwegian Nynorsk: ris
      • Swedish: ris
    • → Russian: рис (ris)
  • → Italian: riso
    • → Old French: ris
      • French: riz
      • → Middle English: rys
        • English: rice
          • Tok Pisin: rais
        • → Irish: rís
  • → Translingual: Oryza
• → Laz: ორზა (orza)
• → Mingrelian: ორზა (orza), ორჷზა (orəza), ორიზა (oriza)
• → Old Armenian: որիզ (oriz)

References

• “ὄρυζα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὄρυζα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • rice idem, page 712.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1112f
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 282
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[2] (in German), volume III, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 597f