ἴτριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown, probably a loanword.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /í.tri.on/ → /ˈi.tri.on/ → /ˈi.tri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /í.tri.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈi.tri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.tri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.tri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.tri.on/

Noun

ἴτριον • (ítrion) n (genitive ἰτρίου); second declension

1. cake made of sesame and honey

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ἴτριον; τοῦ ἰτρίου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἴτριον tò ítrion	τὼ ἰτρίω tṑ itríō	τᾰ̀ ἴτριᾰ tà ítria
Genitive	τοῦ ἰτρίου toû itríou	τοῖν ἰτρίοιν toîn itríoin	τῶν ἰτρίων tôn itríōn
Dative	τῷ ἰτρίῳ tôi itríōi	τοῖν ἰτρίοιν toîn itríoin	τοῖς ἰτρίοις toîs itríois
Accusative	τὸ ἴτριον tò ítrion	τὼ ἰτρίω tṑ itríō	τᾰ̀ ἴτριᾰ tà ítria
Vocative	ἴτριον ítrion	ἰτρίω itríō	ἴτριᾰ ítria
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἰτρίνεος (itríneos)
• ἰτριοπώλης (itriopṓlēs)

 

Descendants

• → Aramaic: אִטְרִיתָא
  • → Hebrew: אִטְרִיָה (itriyá)
  • → Arabic: إِطْرِيَة (ʔiṭriya)
    • → Portuguese: aletria
    • → Spanish: aletría

Further reading

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