ἰσάτις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps loaned from a substrate source common to Latin vitrum (“glass, dyer's woad”), Proto-Germanic *waizdaz. Beekes notes that the plant was probably named for its glass-like color.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /iː.sá.tis/ → /iˈsa.tis/ → /iˈsa.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /iː.sá.tis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /iˈsa.tis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /iˈsa.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iˈsa.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈsa.tis/

Noun

ῑ̓σάτῐς • (īsátis) f (genitive ῑ̓σάτῐδος); third declension

1. dyer's woad (Isatis tinctoria)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ῑ̓σᾰ́τῐς; τῆς ῑ̓σᾰ́τῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῑ̓σᾰ́τῐς hē īsátis	τὼ ῑ̓σᾰ́τῐδε tṑ īsátide	αἱ ῑ̓σᾰ́τῐδες hai īsátides
Genitive	τῆς ῑ̓σᾰ́τῐδος tês īsátidos	τοῖν ῑ̓σᾰτῐ́δοιν toîn īsatídoin	τῶν ῑ̓σᾰτῐ́δων tôn īsatídōn
Dative	τῇ ῑ̓σᾰ́τῐδῐ têi īsátidi	τοῖν ῑ̓σᾰτῐ́δοιν toîn īsatídoin	ταῖς ῑ̓σᾰ́τῐσῐ / ῑ̓σᾰ́τῐσῐν taîs īsátisi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ῑ̓σᾰ́τῐδᾰ tḕn īsátida	τὼ ῑ̓σᾰ́τῐδε tṑ īsátide	τᾱ̀ς ῑ̓σᾰ́τῐδᾰς tā̀s īsátidas
Vocative	ῑ̓σᾰ́τῐς īsátis	ῑ̓σᾰ́τῐδε īsátide	ῑ̓σᾰ́τῐδες īsátides
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.

Derived terms

• ῑ̓σατώδης (īsatṓdēs)

Descendants

• → Arabic: سُدُوس (sudūs)
• → Hebrew: אִיסָטִיס (ʾīsāṭēs), in old times also אֶסְטֵס (ʾesəṭēs), אסטס, אִסְטֵיס (ʾīsəṭēs), סטיס
• → Latin: īsatis
  • → Translingual: Isatis
• → Classical Syriac: ܐܝܣܛܝܣ (/⁠*ʾīsāṭēs⁠/), ܐܝܣܐܛܝܣ (/⁠*ʾīsāṭēs⁠/)

Further reading

• “ἰσάτις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἰσάτις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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
• Löw, Immanuel (1922) “Semitische Färberpflanzen”, in Zeitschrift für Semitistik und verwandte Gebiete‎^[1] (in German), volume 1, pages 122–135
• Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen‎^[2] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 347