ἡδύσαρον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown. The word recalls ἄσαρον (ásaron, “hazelwort”) and σίσαρον (sísaron, “parsnip”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hɛː.dý.sa.ron/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)e̝ˈdy.sa.ron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /iˈðy.sa.ron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /iˈðy.sa.ron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /iˈði.sa.ron/
Noun
ἡδῠ́σᾰρον • (hēdŭ́săron) n (genitive ἡδῠσᾰ́ρου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ἡδῠ́σᾰρον tò hēdŭ́săron |
τὼ ἡδῠσᾰ́ρω tṑ hēdŭsắrō |
τᾰ̀ ἡδῠ́σᾰρᾰ tằ hēdŭ́sără | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ἡδῠσᾰ́ρου toû hēdŭsắrou |
τοῖν ἡδῠσᾰ́ροιν toîn hēdŭsắroin |
τῶν ἡδῠσᾰ́ρων tôn hēdŭsắrōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ἡδῠσᾰ́ρῳ tōî hēdŭsắrōi |
τοῖν ἡδῠσᾰ́ροιν toîn hēdŭsắroin |
τοῖς ἡδῠσᾰ́ροις toîs hēdŭsắrois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ἡδῠ́σᾰρον tò hēdŭ́săron |
τὼ ἡδῠσᾰ́ρω tṑ hēdŭsắrō |
τᾰ̀ ἡδῠ́σᾰρᾰ tằ hēdŭ́sără | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἡδῠ́σᾰρον hēdŭ́săron |
ἡδῠσᾰ́ρω hēdŭsắrō |
ἡδῠ́σᾰρᾰ hēdŭ́sără | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Translingual: Hedysarum
Further reading
- “ἡδύσαρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἡδύσαρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette