ἄλισμα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown. The word does not contain ἅλς (háls, “salt”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /á.liz.ma/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈa.liz.ma/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.liz.ma/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.liz.ma/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.liz.ma/
Noun
ἄλισμᾰ • (álismă) n (genitive ἀλίσμᾰτος); third declension
- water plantain (Alisma plantago-aquatica)
- Synonym: ἄσκυρον (áskuron)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ἄλισμᾰ tò álismă |
τὼ ἀλίσμᾰτε tṑ alísmăte |
τᾰ̀ ἀλίσμᾰτᾰ tằ alísmătă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ἀλίσμᾰτος toû alísmătos |
τοῖν ἀλισμᾰ́τοιν toîn alismắtoin |
τῶν ἀλισμᾰ́των tôn alismắtōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ἀλίσμᾰτῐ tōî alísmătĭ |
τοῖν ἀλισμᾰ́τοιν toîn alismắtoin |
τοῖς ἀλίσμᾰσῐ / ἀλίσμᾰσῐν toîs alísmăsĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ἄλισμᾰ tò álismă |
τὼ ἀλίσμᾰτε tṑ alísmăte |
τᾰ̀ ἀλίσμᾰτᾰ tằ alísmătă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἄλισμᾰ álismă |
ἀλίσμᾰτε alísmăte |
ἀλίσμᾰτᾰ alísmătă | ||||||||||
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Descendants
References
- “ἄλισμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἄλισμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄλισμα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- 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