τιθύμαλλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably a reduplicated formation. As all words in -αλλος are Pre-Greek, the same holds for this one.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ti.tʰý.mal.los/ → /tiˈθy.mal.los/ → /tiˈθi.ma.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ti.tʰý.mal.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tiˈtʰy.mal.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /tiˈθy.mal.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tiˈθy.mal.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tiˈθi.ma.los/

Noun

τῐθῠ́μᾰλλος • (tithúmallos) m (genitive τῐθῠμᾰ́λλου); second declension

1. petty spurge, milkweed (Euphorbia peplus)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ τῐθῠ́μᾰλλος; τοῦ τῐθῠμᾰ́λλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ τῐθῠ́μᾰλλος ho tithúmallos	τὼ τῐθῠμᾰ́λλω tṑ tithumállō	οἱ τῐθῠ́μᾰλλοι hoi tithúmalloi
Genitive	τοῦ τῐθῠμᾰ́λλου toû tithumállou	τοῖν τῐθῠμᾰ́λλοιν toîn tithumálloin	τῶν τῐθῠμᾰ́λλων tôn tithumállōn
Dative	τῷ τῐθῠμᾰ́λλῳ tôi tithumállōi	τοῖν τῐθῠμᾰ́λλοιν toîn tithumálloin	τοῖς τῐθῠμᾰ́λλοις toîs tithumállois
Accusative	τὸν τῐθῠ́μᾰλλον tòn tithúmallon	τὼ τῐθῠμᾰ́λλω tṑ tithumállō	τοὺς τῐθῠμᾰ́λλους toùs tithumállous
Vocative	τῐθῠ́μᾰλλε tithúmalle	τῐθῠμᾰ́λλω tithumállō	τῐθῠ́μᾰλλοι tithúmalloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• τιθυμαλλίς (tithumallís)

Descendants

• Latin: tithymalus

Further reading

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