πικρίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πικρός (pikrós, “bitter”) +‎ -ίς (-ís).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pi.krís/ → /piˈkris/ → /piˈkris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pi.krís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /piˈkris/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /piˈkris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /piˈkris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /piˈkris/

Noun

πικρῐ́ς • (pikrís) f (genitive πικρῐ́δος); third declension

1. bristly oxtongue (Helminthotheca echioides)
2. kind of chicory
3. sour soil

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ πικρῐ́ς; τῆς πικρῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πικρῐ́ς hē pikrís	τὼ πικρῐ́δε tṑ pikríde	αἱ πικρῐ́δες hai pikrídes
Genitive	τῆς πικρῐ́δος tês pikrídos	τοῖν πικρῐ́δοιν toîn pikrídoin	τῶν πικρῐ́δων tôn pikrídōn
Dative	τῇ πικρῐ́δῐ têi pikrídi	τοῖν πικρῐ́δοιν toîn pikrídoin	ταῖς πικρῐ́σῐ / πικρῐ́σῐν taîs pikrísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν πικρῐ́δᾰ tḕn pikrída	τὼ πικρῐ́δε tṑ pikríde	τᾱ̀ς πικρῐ́δᾰς tā̀s pikrídas
Vocative	πικρῐ́ς pikrís	πικρῐ́δε pikríde	πικρῐ́δες pikrídes
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.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Picris

Further reading

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