χόρτος
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰortós (“enclosure”). Cognates include Sanskrit गृह (gṛhá), Latin hortus, and Old English ġeard (English yard).[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰór.tos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkʰor.tos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈxor.tos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈxor.tos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈxor.tos/
Noun
editχόρτος • (khórtos) m (genitive χόρτου); second declension
- feeding place for animals, barn, pasture
- foodstuff for animals, fodder, hay, grass
- Synonym: πόα (póa)
- (in general) food
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ χόρτος ho khórtos |
τὼ χόρτω tṑ khórtō |
οἱ χόρτοι hoi khórtoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ χόρτου toû khórtou |
τοῖν χόρτοιν toîn khórtoin |
τῶν χόρτων tôn khórtōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ χόρτῳ tôi khórtōi |
τοῖν χόρτοιν toîn khórtoin |
τοῖς χόρτοις toîs khórtois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν χόρτον tòn khórton |
τὼ χόρτω tṑ khórtō |
τοὺς χόρτους toùs khórtous | ||||||||||
Vocative | χόρτε khórte |
χόρτω khórtō |
χόρτοι khórtoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Greek: χόρτο (chórto)
References
edit- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “χόρτος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1644-5
Further reading
edit- “χόρτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χόρτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “χόρτος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- χόρτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- χόρτος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “χόρτος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5528 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰer- (enclose)
- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension