μάγαδις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably from Lydian, while others have proposed a Semitic origin. Furnée compares the word with πηκτίς (pēktís, “Lydian stringed instrument”) and reconstructs a pre-form *μάγδις (*mágdis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /má.ɡa.dis/ → /ˈma.ɣa.ðis/ → /ˈma.ɣa.ðis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /má.ɡa.dis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɡa.dis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɣa.ðis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɣa.ðis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɣa.ðis/

Noun

μάγαδῐς • (mágadis) f (genitive μαγάδῐδος); third declension

1. kind of instrument with twenty strings arranged in octaves
2. Lydian flute producing a high and low note together

Declension

Third declension of ἡ μάγαδῐς; τῆς μαγάδῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μάγαδῐς hē mágadis	τὼ μαγάδῐδε tṑ magádide	αἱ μαγάδῐδες hai magádides
Genitive	τῆς μαγάδῐδος tês magádidos	τοῖν μαγαδῐ́δοιν toîn magadídoin	τῶν μαγαδῐ́δων tôn magadídōn
Dative	τῇ μαγάδῐδῐ têi magádidi	τοῖν μαγαδῐ́δοιν toîn magadídoin	ταῖς μαγάδῐσῐ / μαγάδῐσῐν taîs magádisi(n)
Accusative	τὴν μαγάδῐδᾰ tḕn magádida	τὼ μαγάδῐδε tṑ magádide	τᾱ̀ς μαγάδῐδᾰς tā̀s magádidas
Vocative	μάγαδῐς mágadis	μαγάδῐδε magádide	μαγάδῐδες magádides
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Derived terms

• μαγαδίζω (magadízō)
• μαγάδιον (magádion)

 

Further reading

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