ὀστρύα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ὀστρυΐς (ostruḯs), ὀστρύς (ostrús)

Etymology

Frisk compares ὄστρεον (óstreon, “bivalve”) but the semantics are weak. Heubeck and Neumann suggest a Pre-Greek origin, in view of the enlargements in "-ύα", "-υΐς" and "-ύς".

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /os.trý.a/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /osˈtry.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /osˈtry.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /osˈtry.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /osˈtri.a/

Noun

ὀστρύα • (ostrúa) f (genitive ὀστρύᾱς); first declension

common hophornbeam (Ostrya carpinifolia)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ὀστρῠ́ᾰ; τῆς ὀστρῠ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὀστρῠ́ᾰ hē ostrúa	τὼ ὀστρῠ́ᾱ tṑ ostrúā	αἱ ὀστρῠ́αι hai ostrúai
Genitive	τῆς ὀστρῠ́ᾱς tês ostrúās	τοῖν ὀστρῠ́αιν toîn ostrúain	τῶν ὀστρῠῶν tôn ostruôn
Dative	τῇ ὀστρῠ́ᾳ têi ostrúāi	τοῖν ὀστρῠ́αιν toîn ostrúain	ταῖς ὀστρῠ́αις taîs ostrúais
Accusative	τὴν ὀστρῠ́ᾰν tḕn ostrúan	τὼ ὀστρῠ́ᾱ tṑ ostrúā	τᾱ̀ς ὀστρῠ́ᾱς tā̀s ostrúās
Vocative	ὀστρῠ́ᾰ ostrúa	ὀστρῠ́ᾱ ostrúā	ὀστρῠ́αι ostrúai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

→ Latin: ostrya
- → Translingual: Ostrya

References

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