μέταξα
See also: μεταξά and Μεταξά
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- μάταξα (mátaxa), μέταξον (métaxon)
Etymology
Of unknown origin.[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mé.tak.sa/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈme.tak.sa/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈme.tak.sa/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈme.tak.sa/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈme.tak.sa/
Noun
μέταξα • (métaxa) f (genitive μετάξης); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ μέταξᾰ hē métaxă |
τὼ μετάξᾱ tṑ metáxā |
αἱ μέταξαι hai métaxai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς μετάξης tês metáxēs |
τοῖν μετάξαιν toîn metáxain |
τῶν μεταξῶν tôn metaxôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ μετάξῃ tēî metáxēi |
τοῖν μετάξαιν toîn metáxain |
ταῖς μετάξαις taîs metáxais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν μέταξᾰν tḕn métaxăn |
τὼ μετάξᾱ tṑ metáxā |
τᾱ̀ς μετάξᾱς tā̀s metáxās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μέταξᾰ métaxă |
μετάξᾱ metáxā |
μέταξαι métaxai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- μεταξάβλαττα (metaxáblatta)
- μεταξάριος (metaxários)
- μετάξιον (metáxion)
- σπαρτομέταξα (spartométaxa)
Descendants
- → Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܡܝܛܟܣܐ (miṭaksā)
- Jewish Palestinian Aramaic, Jewish Literary Aramaic, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: מיטכסא / מטכסא / מטקסא (məṭaqṣā, məṭakṣā, miṭakṣā)
- → Arabic: مِدَقْس (midaqs), دِمَقْس (dimaqs)
- → Latin: mataxa, metaxa
- → Old Armenian: մետաքս (metakʻs)
- → Armenian: մետաքս (metakʻs)
- → Old Georgian: მეტაქსი (meṭaksi)
- → Laz: მეტაქსი (meťaksi), მეკტასი (meǩťasi) — Vizha
References
- ^ μέταξα, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
Further reading
- “μέταξα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μέταξα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette