θρῖναξ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• θρῑνάκη (thrīnákē)

Etymology

Mostly interpreted as a compound with τρι- (tri-), but the attempts at finding an Indo-European etymology have failed. Furnée compares τρίναξ (trínax, “instrument used in agriculture”), suggesting a Pre-Greek origin, in view of the variation θρι-/τρι- and the typical substrate suffix -ᾰξ.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰrîː.naks/ → /ˈθri.naks/ → /ˈθri.naks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰrîː.naks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰri.naks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈθri.naks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈθri.naks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈθri.naks/

Noun

θρῖνᾰξ • (thrînax) f (genitive θρῑ́νᾰκος); third declension

1. winnowing fork, three-pronged fork used to stir grain

   Synonym: τρίαινα (tríaina)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ θρῖνᾰξ; τῆς θρῑ́νᾰκος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ θρῖνᾰξ hē thrînax	τὼ θρῑ́νᾰκε tṑ thrī́nake	αἱ θρῑ́νᾰκες hai thrī́nakes
Genitive	τῆς θρῑ́νᾰκος tês thrī́nakos	τοῖν θρῑνᾰ́κοιν toîn thrīnákoin	τῶν θρῑνᾰ́κων tôn thrīnákōn
Dative	τῇ θρῑ́νᾰκῐ têi thrī́naki	τοῖν θρῑνᾰ́κοιν toîn thrīnákoin	ταῖς θρῑ́νᾰξῐ / θρῑ́νᾰξῐν taîs thrī́naxi(n)
Accusative	τὴν θρῑ́νᾰκᾰ tḕn thrī́naka	τὼ θρῑ́νᾰκε tṑ thrī́nake	τᾱ̀ς θρῑ́νᾰκᾰς tā̀s thrī́nakas
Vocative	θρῖνᾰξ thrînax	θρῑ́νᾰκε thrī́nake	θρῑ́νᾰκες thrī́nakes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Θρινακίη (Thrinakíē)

Descendants

• → Translingual: Thrinax

Further reading

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