ἄφρισσα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Furnée connects this word with ἀφία (aphía, “lesser celandine”). The suffix -ισσ- (-iss-) suggests a Pre-Greek word.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /á.pʰris.sa/ → /ˈa.ɸris.sa/ → /ˈa.fri.sa/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /á.pʰris.sa/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈa.pʰris.sa/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɸris.sa/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.fris.sa/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈa.fri.sa/

Noun

ἄφρισσᾰ • (áphrissa) f (genitive ἀφρίσσης); first declension

1. dragonwort (Dracunculus vulgaris)

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἄφρισσᾰ; τῆς ἀφρίσσης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἄφρισσᾰ hē áphrissa	τὼ ἀφρίσσᾱ tṑ aphríssā	αἱ ἄφρισσαι hai áphrissai
Genitive	τῆς ἀφρίσσης tês aphríssēs	τοῖν ἀφρίσσαιν toîn aphríssain	τῶν ἀφρισσῶν tôn aphrissôn
Dative	τῇ ἀφρίσσῃ têi aphríssēi	τοῖν ἀφρίσσαιν toîn aphríssain	ταῖς ἀφρίσσαις taîs aphríssais
Accusative	τὴν ἄφρισσᾰν tḕn áphrissan	τὼ ἀφρίσσᾱ tṑ aphríssā	τᾱ̀ς ἀφρίσσᾱς tā̀s aphríssās
Vocative	ἄφρισσᾰ áphrissa	ἀφρίσσᾱ aphríssā	ἄφρισσαι áphrissai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Translingual: Aphrissa

Further reading

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