βατίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

If the word is identical with βότις (bótis, “kind of fish”), the vowel interchange points to a Pre-Greek origin, which is to be expected for a fish name anyhow.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ba.tís/ → /βaˈtis/ → /vaˈtis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ba.tís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /baˈtis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /βaˈtis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /vaˈtis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /vaˈtis/

Noun

βᾰτῐ́ς • (bătĭ́s) f (genitive βᾰτῐ́δος); third declension

1. skate or ray
2. stonechat (bird of the genus Saxicola)
3. samphire (Crithmum maritimum)

   Synonym: κρῆθμον (krêthmon)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ βᾰτῐ́ς; τῆς βᾰτῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βᾰτῐ́ς hē bătĭ́s	τὼ βᾰτῐ́δε tṑ bătĭ́de	αἱ βᾰτῐ́δες hai bătĭ́des
Genitive	τῆς βᾰτῐ́δος tês bătĭ́dos	τοῖν βᾰτῐ́δοιν toîn bătĭ́doin	τῶν βᾰτῐ́δων tôn bătĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ βᾰτῐ́δῐ têi bătĭ́dĭ	τοῖν βᾰτῐ́δοιν toîn bătĭ́doin	ταῖς βᾰτῐ́σῐ / βᾰτῐ́σῐν taîs bătĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν βᾰτῐ́δᾰ tḕn bătĭ́dă	τὼ βᾰτῐ́δε tṑ bătĭ́de	τᾱ̀ς βᾰτῐ́δᾰς tā̀s bătĭ́dăs
Vocative	βᾰτῐ́ς bătĭ́s	βᾰτῐ́δε bătĭ́de	βᾰτῐ́δες bătĭ́des
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Further reading

• “βατίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βατίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βατίς 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