θλάσπις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• θλάσπι (thláspi)

Etymology

Unknown. Derivation from θλάω (thláō, “to crush, bruise”) is folk-etymological.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰlás.pis/ → /ˈθlas.pis/ → /ˈθlas.pis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰlás.pis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰlas.pis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈθlas.pis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈθlas.pis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈθlas.pis/

Noun

θλάσπῐς • (thláspis) f (genitive θλάσπεως); third declension

1. shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)

   Synonym: βότρυον (bótruon)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ θλᾰ́σπῐς; τῆς θλᾰ́σπεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ θλᾰ́σπῐς hē thláspis	τὼ θλᾰ́σπει tṑ thláspei	αἱ θλᾰ́σπεις hai thláspeis
Genitive	τῆς θλᾰ́σπεως tês thláspeōs	τοῖν θλᾰσπέοιν toîn thlaspéoin	τῶν θλᾰ́σπεων tôn thláspeōn
Dative	τῇ θλᾰ́σπει têi thláspei	τοῖν θλᾰσπέοιν toîn thlaspéoin	ταῖς θλᾰ́σπεσῐ / θλᾰ́σπεσῐν taîs thláspesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν θλᾰ́σπῐν tḕn thláspin	τὼ θλᾰ́σπει tṑ thláspei	τᾱ̀ς θλᾰ́σπεις tā̀s thláspeis
Vocative	θλᾰ́σπῐ thláspi	θλᾰ́σπει thláspei	θλᾰ́σπεις thláspeis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• θλασπίδιον (thlaspídion)

Descendants

• → Latin: thlaspi
• → Translingual: Thlaspi

Further reading

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