ὀστρακισμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὀστρακίζω (ostrakízō) +‎ -μός (-mós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /os.tra.kiz.mós/ → /os.tra.cizˈmos/ → /os.tra.cizˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /os.tra.kiz.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /os.tra.kizˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /os.tra.cizˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /os.tra.cizˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /os.tra.cizˈmos/

Noun

ὀστρᾰκῐσμός • (ostrakismós) m (genitive ὀστρᾰκῐσμοῦ); second declension

1. ostracism

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ὀστρᾰκῐσμός; τοῦ ὀστρᾰκῐσμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὀστρᾰκῐσμός ho ostrakismós	τὼ ὀστρᾰκῐσμώ tṑ ostrakismṓ	οἱ ὀστρᾰκῐσμοί hoi ostrakismoí
Genitive	τοῦ ὀστρᾰκῐσμοῦ toû ostrakismoû	τοῖν ὀστρᾰκῐσμοῖν toîn ostrakismoîn	τῶν ὀστρᾰκῐσμῶν tôn ostrakismôn
Dative	τῷ ὀστρᾰκῐσμῷ tôi ostrakismôi	τοῖν ὀστρᾰκῐσμοῖν toîn ostrakismoîn	τοῖς ὀστρᾰκῐσμοῖς toîs ostrakismoîs
Accusative	τὸν ὀστρᾰκῐσμόν tòn ostrakismón	τὼ ὀστρᾰκῐσμώ tṑ ostrakismṓ	τοὺς ὀστρᾰκῐσμούς toùs ostrakismoús
Vocative	ὀστρᾰκῐσμέ ostrakismé	ὀστρᾰκῐσμώ ostrakismṓ	ὀστρᾰκῐσμοί ostrakismoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: οστρακισμός (ostrakismós)
• → English: ostracism (learned)
• → French: ostracisme (learned)

Further reading

• “ὀστρακισμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὀστρακισμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • ostracism idem, page 581.