ἀνδράχνη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀνδράχλη (andrákhlē), ἄνδραχνος (ándrakhnos)

Etymology

Furnée compares ἀθραγένη (athragénē, “traveller's joy”), which is formally quite acceptable. A Pre-Greek origin is probable anyhow.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /an.drá.kʰnɛː/ → /anˈdra.xni/ → /anˈdra.xni/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /an.drá.kʰnɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /anˈdra.kʰne̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /anˈdra.xni/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /anˈdra.xni/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /anˈdra.xni/

Noun

ἀνδράχνη • (andrákhnē) f (genitive ἀνδράχνης); first declension

1. common purslane (Portulaca oleracea)
2. wild strawberry (Fragaria vesca)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἀνδράχνη; τῆς ἀνδράχνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀνδράχνη hē andrákhnē	τὼ ἀνδράχνᾱ tṑ andrákhnā	αἱ ἀνδράχναι hai andrákhnai
Genitive	τῆς ἀνδράχνης tês andrákhnēs	τοῖν ἀνδράχναιν toîn andrákhnain	τῶν ἀνδραχνῶν tôn andrakhnôn
Dative	τῇ ἀνδράχνῃ têi andrákhnēi	τοῖν ἀνδράχναιν toîn andrákhnain	ταῖς ἀνδράχναις taîs andrákhnais
Accusative	τὴν ἀνδράχνην tḕn andrákhnēn	τὼ ἀνδράχνᾱ tṑ andrákhnā	τᾱ̀ς ἀνδράχνᾱς tā̀s andrákhnās
Vocative	ἀνδράχνη andrákhnē	ἀνδράχνᾱ andrákhnā	ἀνδράχναι andrákhnai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Translingual: → Andrachne, Arbutus andrachne

Further reading

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