τόρδυλον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• τορδίλιον (tordílion), τορδύλιον (tordúlion)

Etymology

The origin is unknown.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tór.dyː.lon/ → /ˈtor.ðy.lon/ → /ˈtor.ði.lon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tór.dyː.lon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtor.dy.lon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈtor.ðy.lon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈtor.ðy.lon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈtor.ði.lon/

Noun

τόρδῡλον • (tórdūlon) n (genitive τορδῡ́λου); second declension

1. hartwort (Tordylium officinale)

   Synonym: γόργιλον (górgilon)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ τόρδῡλον; τοῦ τορδῡ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ τόρδῡλον tò tórdūlon	τὼ τορδῡ́λω tṑ tordū́lō	τᾰ̀ τόρδῡλᾰ tà tórdūla
Genitive	τοῦ τορδῡ́λου toû tordū́lou	τοῖν τορδῡ́λοιν toîn tordū́loin	τῶν τορδῡ́λων tôn tordū́lōn
Dative	τῷ τορδῡ́λῳ tôi tordū́lōi	τοῖν τορδῡ́λοιν toîn tordū́loin	τοῖς τορδῡ́λοις toîs tordū́lois
Accusative	τὸ τόρδῡλον tò tórdūlon	τὼ τορδῡ́λω tṑ tordū́lō	τᾰ̀ τόρδῡλᾰ tà tórdūla
Vocative	τόρδῡλον tórdūlon	τορδῡ́λω tordū́lō	τόρδῡλᾰ tórdūla
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: tordȳlion

Further reading

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