νίτρον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Semitic. Compare Hebrew נֶתֶר (néṯer, “washing soda”), all ultimately from Egyptian nṯrj:

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Pronunciation

 

Noun

νῐ́τρον • (nĭ́tron) n (genitive νῐ́τρου); second declension

  1. sodium carbonate or sodium nitrate (or perhaps mineral potassium nitrate), which were not distinguished in Europe until the 13th century

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ νῐ́τρον; τοῦ νῐ́τρου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τὸ νῐ́τρον
tò nĭ́tron 		τὼ νῐ́τρω
tṑ nĭ́trō 		τᾰ̀ νῐ́τρᾰ
tằ nĭ́tră
Genitive τοῦ νῐ́τρου
toû nĭ́trou 		τοῖν νῐ́τροιν
toîn nĭ́troin 		τῶν νῐ́τρων
tôn nĭ́trōn
Dative τῷ νῐ́τρῳ
tōî nĭ́trōi 		τοῖν νῐ́τροιν
toîn nĭ́troin 		τοῖς νῐ́τροις
toîs nĭ́trois
Accusative τὸ νῐ́τρον
tò nĭ́tron 		τὼ νῐ́τρω
tṑ nĭ́trō 		τᾰ̀ νῐ́τρᾰ
tằ nĭ́tră
Vocative νῐ́τρον
nĭ́tron 		νῐ́τρω
nĭ́trō 		νῐ́τρᾰ
nĭ́tră
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

  • → Arabic: نَطْرُون (naṭrūn)
  • → Latin: nitrum

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “νίτρον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1022

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