τόπαζος
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
- τόπᾰζον (tópazon)
Etymology edit
A loanword which, according to Pliny, was taken from the language of the Troglodytes, and named after an island of the same name in the Red Sea. However, according to Furnée, the existence of the gloss ταβάσιος (tabásios, “kind of stone”) proves a Pre-Greek origin of the word. Also compare Sanskrit तपस् (tapas, “fire, heat”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tó.paz.dos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈto.pa.zos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈto.pa.zos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈto.pa.zos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈto.pa.zos/
Noun edit
τόπᾰζος • (tópazos) m (genitive τοπᾰ́ζου); second declension
- gem of green hue, probably chrysolite or peridot
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ τόπᾰζος ho tópazos |
τὼ τοπᾰ́ζω tṑ topázō |
οἱ τόπᾰζοι hoi tópazoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ τοπᾰ́ζου toû topázou |
τοῖν τοπᾰ́ζοιν toîn topázoin |
τῶν τοπᾰ́ζων tôn topázōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ τοπᾰ́ζῳ tôi topázōi |
τοῖν τοπᾰ́ζοιν toîn topázoin |
τοῖς τοπᾰ́ζοις toîs topázois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν τόπᾰζον tòn tópazon |
τὼ τοπᾰ́ζω tṑ topázō |
τοὺς τοπᾰ́ζους toùs topázous | ||||||||||
Vocative | τόπᾰζε tópaze |
τοπᾰ́ζω topázō |
τόπᾰζοι tópazoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
- τοπᾰ́ζῐον (topázion)
Descendants edit
- → Old Georgian: ტპაზიონი (ṭṗazioni)
- → Latin: topazius (see there for further descendants)
- → Macedonian: топаз (topaz)
- → Russian: топа́з (topáz)
- → Kazakh: топаз (topaz)
- → Serbo-Croatian: topaz
References edit
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “topaz”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading edit
- “τόπαζος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τόπαζος 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