σμίνθος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, either from Pre-Greek or Anatolian.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /zmín.tʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈzmin.tʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈzmin.θos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈzmin.θos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈzmin.θos/
Noun
σμίνθος • (smínthos) m (genitive σμίνθου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ σμῐ́νθος ho smĭ́nthos |
τὼ σμῐ́νθω tṑ smĭ́nthō |
οἱ σμῐ́νθοι hoi smĭ́nthoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ σμῐ́νθου toû smĭ́nthou |
τοῖν σμῐ́νθοιν toîn smĭ́nthoin |
τῶν σμῐ́νθων tôn smĭ́nthōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ σμῐ́νθῳ tōî smĭ́nthōi |
τοῖν σμῐ́νθοιν toîn smĭ́nthoin |
τοῖς σμῐ́νθοις toîs smĭ́nthois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν σμῐ́νθον tòn smĭ́nthon |
τὼ σμῐ́νθω tṑ smĭ́nthō |
τοὺς σμῐ́νθους toùs smĭ́nthous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σμῐ́νθε smĭ́nthe |
σμῐ́νθω smĭ́nthō |
σμῐ́νθοι smĭ́nthoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Σμινθεύς (Smintheús)
- Σμίνθιος (Smínthios)
Further reading
- “σμίνθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σμίνθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN