τρύγγας

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /trýŋ.ɡaːs/ → /ˈtryŋ.ɡas/ → /ˈtriŋ.ɡas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /trýŋ.ɡaːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtryŋ.ɡas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈtryŋ.ɡas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈtryŋ.ɡas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈtriŋ.ɡas/

Noun

τρῠ́γγᾱς • (trúngās) m (genitive τρῠ́γγου); first declension

1. kind of bird, probably the common redshank (Tringa totanus)

Inflection

First declension of ὁ τρῠ́γγᾱς; τοῦ τρῠ́γγου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ τρῠ́γγᾱς ho trúngās	τὼ τρῠ́γγᾱ tṑ trúngā	οἱ τρῠ́γγαι hoi trúngai
Genitive	τοῦ τρῠ́γγου toû trúngou	τοῖν τρῠ́γγαιν toîn trúngain	τῶν τρῠγγῶν tôn trungôn
Dative	τῷ τρῠ́γγᾳ tôi trúngāi	τοῖν τρῠ́γγαιν toîn trúngain	τοῖς τρῠ́γγαις toîs trúngais
Accusative	τὸν τρῠ́γγᾱν tòn trúngān	τὼ τρῠ́γγᾱ tṑ trúngā	τοὺς τρῠ́γγᾱς toùs trúngās
Vocative	τρῠ́γγᾱ trúngā	τρῠ́γγᾱ trúngā	τρῠ́γγαι trúngai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Tringa

Further reading

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