κιτρέα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κίτρον (kítron, “fruit of the citron tree”) + -έᾱ (-éā).
Pronunciation
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ciˈtre.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ciˈtre.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ciˈtre.a/
Noun
κῐτρέᾱ • (kĭtréā) f (genitive κῐτρέᾱς); first declension
- citron tree
- Geoponica 10.7.8:
- Κίτρια δὲ εἰ βούλει μέλανα ποιῆσαι, μηλέας κλάδον τῇ κιτρέᾳ ἐγκέντριζε, καὶ ἀνάπαλιν.
- Kítria dè ei boúlei mélana poiêsai, mēléas kládon tēî kitréāi enkéntrize, kaì anápalin.
- If you want to make dark citrons, graft a branch of an apple tree onto the citron tree, and vice versa.
- Κίτρια δὲ εἰ βούλει μέλανα ποιῆσαι, μηλέας κλάδον τῇ κιτρέᾳ ἐγκέντριζε, καὶ ἀνάπαλιν.
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ κῐτρέᾱ hē kĭtréā |
τὼ κῐτρέᾱ tṑ kĭtréā |
αἱ κῐτρέαι hai kĭtréai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς κῐτρέᾱς tês kĭtréās |
τοῖν κῐτρέαιν toîn kĭtréain |
τῶν κῐτρεῶν tôn kĭtreôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ κῐτρέᾳ tēî kĭtréāi |
τοῖν κῐτρέαιν toîn kĭtréain |
ταῖς κῐτρέαις taîs kĭtréais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν κῐτρέᾱν tḕn kĭtréān |
τὼ κῐτρέᾱ tṑ kĭtréā |
τᾱ̀ς κῐτρέᾱς tā̀s kĭtréās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κῐτρέᾱ kĭtréā |
κῐτρέᾱ kĭtréā |
κῐτρέαι kĭtréai | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “κιτρέα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κιτρέα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κιτρέα, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011