διρκαία
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
- κιρκαία (kirkaía)
Etymology edit
According to Pedanius Dioscorides, the plant was named after the sorceress Circe. Alternatively, the word could be related to the proper noun Δίρκη (Dírkē). Furnée points to a Pre-Greek name in -αιο-. Compare also δίρκαιον (dírkaion, “winter cherry”).
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /dir.kǎi̯.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /dirˈkɛ.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ðirˈcɛ.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ðirˈce.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ðirˈce.a/
Noun edit
δῐρκαίᾰ • (dirkaía) f (genitive δῐρκαίᾱς); first declension
Declension edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ δῐρκαῖᾰ hē dirkaîa |
τὼ δῐρκαίᾱ tṑ dirkaíā |
αἱ δῐρκαῖαι hai dirkaîai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς δῐρκαίᾱς tês dirkaíās |
τοῖν δῐρκαίαιν toîn dirkaíain |
τῶν δῐρκαιῶν tôn dirkaiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ δῐρκαίᾳ têi dirkaíāi |
τοῖν δῐρκαίαιν toîn dirkaíain |
ταῖς δῐρκαίαις taîs dirkaíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν δῐρκαῖᾰν tḕn dirkaîan |
τὼ δῐρκαίᾱ tṑ dirkaíā |
τᾱ̀ς δῐρκαίᾱς tā̀s dirkaíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | δῐρκαῖᾰ dirkaîa |
δῐρκαίᾱ dirkaíā |
δῐρκαῖαι dirkaîai | ||||||||||
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Further reading edit
- “διρκαία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- διρκαία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- 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
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- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
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- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension
- grc:Dogbane family plants