μαστίχη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μαστιχάω (mastikháō, “I chew”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mas.tí.kʰɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /masˈti.kʰe̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /masˈti.çi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /masˈti.çi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /masˈti.çi/
Noun
μαστίχη • (mastíkhē) f (genitive μαστίχης); first declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ μαστίχη hē mastíkhē |
τὼ μαστίχᾱ tṑ mastíkhā |
αἱ μαστίχαι hai mastíkhai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς μαστίχης tês mastíkhēs |
τοῖν μαστίχαιν toîn mastíkhain |
τῶν μαστιχῶν tôn mastikhôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ μαστίχῃ tēî mastíkhēi |
τοῖν μαστίχαιν toîn mastíkhain |
ταῖς μαστίχαις taîs mastíkhais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν μαστίχην tḕn mastíkhēn |
τὼ μαστίχᾱ tṑ mastíkhā |
τᾱ̀ς μαστίχᾱς tā̀s mastíkhās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μαστίχη mastíkhē |
μαστίχᾱ mastíkhā |
μαστίχαι mastíkhai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- μαστίχινος (mastíkhinos)
Descendants
- Greek: μαστίχα (mastícha)
- → Arabic: مُصْطَكَى (muṣṭakā), مُصْطَكَاء (muṣṭakāʔ), مُصْطَكِيّ (muṣṭakiyy), مِسْتَكَة (mistaka), مِسْتَكِيّ (mistakiyy), مَسْتِيك (mastīk) — more dialectal
- → Hebrew: מַסְטִיק (mástik), מַסְטִיקָא (mastíka)
- → Latin: mastichē
References
- “μαστίχη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μαστίχη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “mastic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.