δωράκινον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Latin dūracinum, nominative neuter singular of dūracinus (“hard-berried”).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

δωράκινον • (dōrákinon) n (genitive δωρακίνου); second declension

  1. (Late Koine, Early Byzantine) a type of peach ("kingstone")
    • Geoponica, 3 1.4
    • Geoponica, 10 13.1

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ δωράκινον; τοῦ δωρακίνου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Plural
Nominative τὸ δωράκινον
tò dōrákinon 		τᾰ̀ δωράκινᾰ
tằ dōrákină
Genitive τοῦ δωρακίνου
toû dōrakínou 		τῶν δωρακίνων
tôn dōrakínōn
Dative τῷ δωρακίνῳ
tōî dōrakínōi 		τοῖς δωρακίνοις
toîs dōrakínois
Accusative τὸ δωράκινον
tò dōrákinon 		τᾰ̀ δωράκινᾰ
tằ dōrákină
Vocative δωράκινον
dōrákinon 		δωράκινᾰ
dōrákină
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

  • Byzantine Greek: ῥοδάκινον (rhodákinon)
  • → Aramaic:
    Classical Syriac: ܕܘܪܩܝܢܐ (dōraqqīnā, dūrqīnā)
    • → Arabic: دُرَّاق (durrāq)
      • → Northern Kurdish: teraqî
      • → Ottoman Turkish: دراقی (durrakı)
        • Turkish: durakı

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “δωράκινον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 363

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