ὀρίνδης

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὀρίνδα (orínda)

Etymology

A borrowing from an Eastern Iranian language, like ὄρυζα (óruza, “rice”). See the Iranian forms in Middle Persian blnc (/⁠brinǰ⁠/).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /o.rín.dɛːs/ → /oˈrin.dis/ → /oˈrin.dis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /o.rín.dɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /oˈrin.de̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /oˈrin.dis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /oˈrin.dis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /oˈrin.dis/

Noun

ὀρίνδης • (oríndēs) m (genitive ὀρίνδου); first declension

1. bread made of rice

Inflection

First declension of ὁ ὀρίνδης; τοῦ ὀρίνδου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὀρίνδης ho oríndēs	τὼ ὀρίνδᾱ tṑ oríndā	οἱ ὀρίνδαι hoi oríndai
Genitive	τοῦ ὀρίνδου toû oríndou	τοῖν ὀρίνδαιν toîn oríndain	τῶν ὀρινδῶν tôn orindôn
Dative	τῷ ὀρίνδῃ tôi oríndēi	τοῖν ὀρίνδαιν toîn oríndain	τοῖς ὀρίνδαις toîs oríndais
Accusative	τὸν ὀρίνδην tòn oríndēn	τὼ ὀρίνδᾱ tṑ oríndā	τοὺς ὀρίνδᾱς toùs oríndās
Vocative	ὀρίνδη oríndē	ὀρίνδᾱ oríndā	ὀρίνδαι oríndai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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