μυρσινίτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μυρσίνη (mursínē, “myrtle”) +‎ -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /myr.si.nǐː.tɛːs/ → /myr.siˈni.tis/ → /mir.siˈni.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /myr.si.nǐː.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /myr.siˈni.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /myr.siˈni.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /myr.siˈni.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /mir.siˈni.tis/

Noun

μῠρσῐνῑ́της • (mursinī́tēs) m (genitive μῠρσῐνῑ́του); first declension

1. kind of precious stone
2. myrtle spurge (Euphorbia myrsinites)

Declension

First declension of ὁ μῠρσῐνῑ́της; τοῦ μῠρσῐνῑ́του (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μῠρσῐνῑ́της ho mursinī́tēs	τὼ μῠρσῐνῑ́τᾱ tṑ mursinī́tā	οἱ μῠρσῐνῖται hoi mursinîtai
Genitive	τοῦ μῠρσῐνῑ́του toû mursinī́tou	τοῖν μῠρσῐνῑ́ταιν toîn mursinī́tain	τῶν μῠρσῐνῑτῶν tôn mursinītôn
Dative	τῷ μῠρσῐνῑ́τῃ tôi mursinī́tēi	τοῖν μῠρσῐνῑ́ταιν toîn mursinī́tain	τοῖς μῠρσῐνῑ́ταις toîs mursinī́tais
Accusative	τὸν μῠρσῐνῑ́την tòn mursinī́tēn	τὼ μῠρσῐνῑ́τᾱ tṑ mursinī́tā	τοὺς μῠρσῐνῑ́τᾱς toùs mursinī́tās
Vocative	μῠρσῐνῖτᾰ mursinîta	μῠρσῐνῑ́τᾱ mursinī́tā	μῠρσῐνῖται mursinîtai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: myrsinītēs

Further reading

• “μυρσινίτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μυρσινίτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette