ἐλατήριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Neuter form of ἐλατήριος (elatḗrios, “driving away”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.la.tɛ̌ː.ri.on/ → /e.laˈti.ri.on/ → /e.laˈti.ri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.la.tɛ̌ː.ri.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.laˈte̝.ri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.laˈti.ri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.laˈti.ri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.laˈti.ri.on/

Noun

ἐλᾰτήρῐον • (elatḗrion) n (genitive ἐλᾰτηρῐ́ου); second declension

1. squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium)

   Synonyms: σίκυς άγριος m (síkus ágrios), βουβάλιον n (boubálion), νότιον n (nótion), φέρομβρον n (phérombron), βάλλις f (bállis), σκόπιον n (skópion), γρῦνον n (grûnon), πευκέδανον n (peukédanon), σκόρπιον n (skórpion)

2. the drug prepared from the squirting cucumber

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ἐλᾰτήρῐον; τοῦ ἐλᾰτηρῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἐλᾰτήρῐον tò elatḗrion	τὼ ἐλᾰτηρῐ́ω tṑ elatēríō	τᾰ̀ ἐλᾰτήρῐᾰ tà elatḗria
Genitive	τοῦ ἐλᾰτηρῐ́ου toû elatēríou	τοῖν ἐλᾰτηρῐ́οιν toîn elatēríoin	τῶν ἐλᾰτηρῐ́ων tôn elatēríōn
Dative	τῷ ἐλᾰτηρῐ́ῳ tôi elatēríōi	τοῖν ἐλᾰτηρῐ́οιν toîn elatēríoin	τοῖς ἐλᾰτηρῐ́οις toîs elatēríois
Accusative	τὸ ἐλᾰτήρῐον tò elatḗrion	τὼ ἐλᾰτηρῐ́ω tṑ elatēríō	τᾰ̀ ἐλᾰτήρῐᾰ tà elatḗria
Vocative	ἐλᾰτήρῐον elatḗrion	ἐλᾰτηρῐ́ω elatēríō	ἐλᾰτήρῐᾰ elatḗria
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: elatērium

Further reading

• “ἐλατήριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἐλατήριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἐλατήριον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “σίκυς ἄγριος – Ecballium elaterium”, in Dioscórides Interactivo‎^[1] (in Spanish), 2024
• Langkavel, Bernhard (1866) Botanik der späteren Griechen vom dritten bis dreizehnten Jahrhunderte (in German), Berlin: F. Berggold, page 25