βαλλωτή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, it's probably from Pre-Greek and all related to βαλαύστιον (balaústion, “flower of the pomegranate”), βάλαρις (bálaris) and βάλλις (bállis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bal.lɔː.tɛ̌ː/ → /βal.loˈti/ → /va.loˈti/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bal.lɔː.tɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /bal.loˈte̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /βal.loˈti/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /val.loˈti/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /va.loˈti/

Noun

βᾰλλωτή • (băllōtḗ) f (genitive βᾰλλωτῆς); first declension

1. black horehound (Ballota nigra)

   Synonyms: γνοτέρᾱ (gnotérā), μελᾰμπρᾰ́σῐον (melămprắsĭon)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ βᾰλλωτή; τῆς βᾰλλωτῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βᾰλλωτή hē băllōtḗ	τὼ βᾰλλωτᾱ́ tṑ băllōtā́	αἱ βᾰλλωταί hai băllōtaí
Genitive	τῆς βᾰλλωτῆς tês băllōtês	τοῖν βᾰλλωταῖν toîn băllōtaîn	τῶν βᾰλλωτῶν tôn băllōtôn
Dative	τῇ βᾰλλωτῇ têi băllōtêi	τοῖν βᾰλλωταῖν toîn băllōtaîn	ταῖς βᾰλλωταῖς taîs băllōtaîs
Accusative	τὴν βᾰλλωτήν tḕn băllōtḗn	τὼ βᾰλλωτᾱ́ tṑ băllōtā́	τᾱ̀ς βᾰλλωτᾱ́ς tā̀s băllōtā́s
Vocative	βᾰλλωτή băllōtḗ	βᾰλλωτᾱ́ băllōtā́	βᾰλλωταί băllōtaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: ballotē
• → Translingual: Ballota

Further reading

• “βαλλωτή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βαλλωτή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βαλλωτή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βαλλωτή”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 198