τόρδυλον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- τορδίλιον (tordílion), τορδύλιον (tordúlion)
Etymology
The origin is unknown.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tór.dyː.lon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtor.dy.lon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈtor.ðy.lon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈtor.ðy.lon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈtor.ði.lon/
Noun
τόρδῡλον • (tórdūlon) n (genitive τορδῡ́λου); second declension
- hartwort (Tordylium officinale)
- Synonym: γόργιλον (górgilon)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ τόρδῡλον tò tórdūlon |
τὼ τορδῡ́λω tṑ tordū́lō |
τᾰ̀ τόρδῡλᾰ tằ tórdūlă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ τορδῡ́λου toû tordū́lou |
τοῖν τορδῡ́λοιν toîn tordū́loin |
τῶν τορδῡ́λων tôn tordū́lōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ τορδῡ́λῳ tōî tordū́lōi |
τοῖν τορδῡ́λοιν toîn tordū́loin |
τοῖς τορδῡ́λοις toîs tordū́lois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ τόρδῡλον tò tórdūlon |
τὼ τορδῡ́λω tṑ tordū́lō |
τᾰ̀ τόρδῡλᾰ tằ tórdūlă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | τόρδῡλον tórdūlon |
τορδῡ́λω tordū́lō |
τόρδῡλᾰ tórdūlă | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: tordȳlion
Further reading
- “τόρδυλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τόρδυλον 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