ἀβρότονον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἁβρότονον (habrótonon)

Etymology

Unknown, but probably a loanword. Connected with ἁβρός (habrós, “delicate”) by folk etymology. According to Bailey, from Akkadian 𒄑𒃾𒄈 (amurdinnu, “thorned flower”). Perhaps transmitted by a substrate language.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.bró.to.non/ → /aˈβro.to.non/ → /aˈvro.to.non/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.bró.to.non/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈbro.to.non/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈβro.to.non/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈvro.to.non/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈvro.to.non/

Noun

ἀβρότονον • (abrótonon) n (genitive ἀβροτόνου); second declension

1. tree wormwood (Artemisia arborescens)
2. southernwood (Artemisia abrotanum)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ἀβρότονον; τοῦ ἀβροτόνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἀβρότονον tò abrótonon	τὼ ἀβροτόνω tṑ abrotónō	τᾰ̀ ἀβρότονᾰ tà abrótona
Genitive	τοῦ ἀβροτόνου toû abrotónou	τοῖν ἀβροτόνοιν toîn abrotónoin	τῶν ἀβροτόνων tôn abrotónōn
Dative	τῷ ἀβροτόνῳ tôi abrotónōi	τοῖν ἀβροτόνοιν toîn abrotónoin	τοῖς ἀβροτόνοις toîs abrotónois
Accusative	τὸ ἀβρότονον tò abrótonon	τὼ ἀβροτόνω tṑ abrotónō	τᾰ̀ ἀβρότονᾰ tà abrótona
Vocative	ἀβρότονον abrótonon	ἀβροτόνω abrotónō	ἀβρότονᾰ abrótona
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀβροτόνῐνος (abrotóninos)
• ἀβροτονῑ́της (abrotonī́tēs)

 

Descendants

• → Arabic: عَبَيْثَرَان (ʕabayṯarān), عَبْثَرَان (ʕabṯarān), عُبَوْثَرَان (ʕubawṯarān), بُعَيْثَرَان (buʕayṯarān), بَعْثَرَان (baʕṯarān)
• → Latin: abrotonum
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: abrotano
  • Padanian:
    • Piedmontese: aureul
    • Venetian: ambrógano
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Old French: abroigne, abrogne
      • Middle French: auroine, aurone, auronie, aurosne, auronde
        • French: aurone
      • Norman: vrogne
      • → Breton: afronenn
      • → Middle Dutch: averone, aefrug
        • Dutch: averoen
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: broida
    • Old Occitan: veroina
      • Occitan: broina
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Galician: abrótea, abriota, abroita, abrota, abrótega, abrótiga
    • Portuguese: abrótea
  • Sardinian:
    • párdamu
  • Ancient borrowings:
    • → Danish: abrod
    • → Old English: aprotane
    • → Finnish: aaprotti
    • → Proto-West Germanic: *abrūtā, *abrotā (see there for further descendants)
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: abrodd, abrot
    • → Swedish: åbrodd
  • Learned borrowings:
    • → Catalan: abròtan
    • → Middle French: abrotone
      • French: abrotone
    • → Norman: abrotone
    • → Portuguese: abrótano
    • → Spanish: abrótano

Further reading

• “ἀβρότονον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀβρότονον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀβρότονον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)