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 • (batís) 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 batís	τὼ βᾰτῐ́δε tṑ batíde	αἱ βᾰτῐ́δες hai batídes
Genitive	τῆς βᾰτῐ́δος tês batídos	τοῖν βᾰτῐ́δοιν toîn batídoin	τῶν βᾰτῐ́δων tôn batídōn
Dative	τῇ βᾰτῐ́δῐ têi batídi	τοῖν βᾰτῐ́δοιν toîn batídoin	ταῖς βᾰτῐ́σῐ / βᾰτῐ́σῐν taîs batísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν βᾰτῐ́δᾰ tḕn batída	τὼ βᾰτῐ́δε tṑ batíde	τᾱ̀ς βᾰτῐ́δᾰς tā̀s batídas
Vocative	βᾰτῐ́ς batís	βᾰτῐ́δε batíde	βᾰτῐ́δες batídes
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 (2006–2024)
• 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