ἀβυρτάκη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably from Old Persian, because Theopompus wrote that this sauce was made in Media.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.byr.tá.kɛː/ → /a.βyrˈta.ci/ → /a.virˈta.ci/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.byr.tá.kɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.byrˈta.ke̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.βyrˈta.ci/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.vyrˈta.ci/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.virˈta.ci/

Noun

ἀβῠρτᾰ́κη • (aburtákē) f (genitive ἀβῠρτᾰ́κης); first declension

1. sour sauce of leeks, cress and pomegranate seeds

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἀβῠρτᾰ́κη; τῆς ἀβῠρτᾰ́κης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀβῠρτᾰ́κη hē aburtákē	τὼ ἀβῠρτᾰ́κᾱ tṑ aburtákā	αἱ ἀβῠρτᾰ́και hai aburtákai
Genitive	τῆς ἀβῠρτᾰ́κης tês aburtákēs	τοῖν ἀβῠρτᾰ́καιν toîn aburtákain	τῶν ἀβῠρτᾰκῶν tôn aburtakôn
Dative	τῇ ἀβῠρτᾰ́κῃ têi aburtákēi	τοῖν ἀβῠρτᾰ́καιν toîn aburtákain	ταῖς ἀβῠρτᾰ́καις taîs aburtákais
Accusative	τὴν ἀβῠρτᾰ́κην tḕn aburtákēn	τὼ ἀβῠρτᾰ́κᾱ tṑ aburtákā	τᾱ̀ς ἀβῠρτᾰ́κᾱς tā̀s aburtákās
Vocative	ἀβῠρτᾰ́κη aburtákē	ἀβῠρτᾰ́κᾱ aburtákā	ἀβῠρτᾰ́και aburtákai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀβῠρτᾰκοποιός (aburtakopoiós)
• ἀβῠρτᾰκώδης (aburtakṓdēs)

 

Further reading

• “ἀβυρτάκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀβυρτάκη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀβυρτάκη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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