ἀργυρῖτις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἄργυρος (árguros, “silver”) +‎ -ῖτις (-îtis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ar.ɡy.rîː.tis/ → /ar.ʝyˈri.tis/ → /ar.ʝiˈri.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ar.ɡy.rîː.tis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ar.ɡyˈri.tis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ar.ʝyˈri.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ar.ʝyˈri.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ar.ʝiˈri.tis/

Noun

ἀργῠρῖτῐς • (argurîtis) f (genitive ἀργῠρῑ́τῐδος); third declension

1. silver ore
2. mercury (Mercurialis annua)

   Synonym: λινόζωστις (linózōstis)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ἀργῠρῖτῐς; τῆς ἀργῠρῑ́τῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀργῠρῖτῐς hē argurîtis	τὼ ἀργῠρῑ́τῐδε tṑ argurī́tide	αἱ ἀργῠρῑ́τῐδες hai argurī́tides
Genitive	τῆς ἀργῠρῑ́τῐδος tês argurī́tidos	τοῖν ἀργῠρῑτῐ́δοιν toîn argurītídoin	τῶν ἀργῠρῑτῐ́δων tôn argurītídōn
Dative	τῇ ἀργῠρῑ́τῐδῐ têi argurī́tidi	τοῖν ἀργῠρῑτῐ́δοιν toîn argurītídoin	ταῖς ἀργῠρῑ́τῐσῐ / ἀργῠρῑ́τῐσῐν taîs argurī́tisi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἀργῠρῑ́τῐδᾰ tḕn argurī́tida	τὼ ἀργῠρῑ́τῐδε tṑ argurī́tide	τᾱ̀ς ἀργῠρῑ́τῐδᾰς tā̀s argurī́tidas
Vocative	ἀργῠρῖτῐς argurîtis	ἀργῠρῑ́τῐδε argurī́tide	ἀργῠρῑ́τῐδες argurī́tides
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Argyritis

Further reading

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