θρίξ

Ancient GreekEdit

EtymologyEdit

Unknown.

PronunciationEdit

5th BC Attic: IPA: /tʰríkʰs/ ambiguous vowel ί at 3
1st BC Egyptian: IPA: /tʰrikʰs/
4th AD Koine: IPA: /θrixs/
10th AD Byzantine: IPA: /θriks/
15th AD Constantinopolitan: IPA: /θriks/

NounEdit

θρίξ • ‎(thríx) f ‎(genitive τριχός); third declension

hair

InflectionEdit

Third declension of θρίξ, τρῐχός

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ θρίξ	τὼ τρίχε	αἱ τρίχες
Genitive	τῆς τρῐχός	τοῖν τρῐχοῖν	τῶν τρῐχῶν
Dative	τῇ τρῐχῐ́	τοῖν τρῐχοῖν	ταῖς θριξῐ́(ν)
Accusative	τὴν τρίχᾰ	τὼ τρίχε	τὰς τρίχᾰς
Vocative	θρίξ	τρίχε	τρίχες

Dialectal forms:
Notes:

Usage notesEdit

Originally containing two aspirates; in the Nom. and Voc. the initial aspirate is retained, the final deaspirated, whereas in the oblique forms the reverse is true.

DescendantsEdit

English: tricho-, -trichous
Greek: τρίχα ‎(trícha)

ReferencesEdit

θρίξ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
θρίξ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
θρίξ in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
«θρίξ» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
«θρίξ» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“G2359”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- fur idem, page 350.
- hair idem, page 380.

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