θρίξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown; possibly Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰríks/ → /θriks/ → /θriks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰríks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tʰriks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /θriks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /θriks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /θriks/

Noun

θρῐ́ξ • (thríx) f (genitive τρῐχός); third declension

1. hair

Inflection

The declension unusually shows the nominative singular's initial consonant being aspirated while the other forms lack it owing to Grassmann's law. The nominative singular and dative plural retained their initial aspiration due to the root χ losing its aspiration before the ending starting with -ς.

Third declension of ἡ θρῐ́ξ; τῆς τρῐχός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ θρῐ́ξ hē thríx	τὼ τρῐ́χε tṑ tríkhe	αἱ τρῐ́χες hai tríkhes
Genitive	τῆς τρῐχός tês trikhós	τοῖν τρῐχοῖν toîn trikhoîn	τῶν τρῐχῶν tôn trikhôn
Dative	τῇ τρῐχῐ́ têi trikhí	τοῖν τρῐχοῖν toîn trikhoîn	ταῖς θρῐξῐ́ / θρῐξῐ́ν taîs thrixí / thrixín
Accusative	τὴν τρῐ́χᾰ tḕn tríkha	τὼ τρῐ́χε tṑ tríkhe	τᾱ̀ς τρῐ́χᾰς tā̀s tríkhas
Vocative	θρῐ́ξ thríx	τρῐ́χε tríkhe	τρῐ́χες tríkhes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• καλλίθριξ (kallíthrix)
• μελᾰ́νθρῐξ (melánthrix)
• τρῐχᾰ́ς (trikhás)
• τρίχινος (tríkhinos)
• τριχομανές (trikhomanés)
• τρίχωμα (tríkhōma)

 

Descendants

• Greek: τρίχα (trícha)
• → New Latin: trichechus m
  • → Italian: tricheco m
• → English: tricho-, -trichous

Further reading

• “θρίξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θρίξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “θρίξ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• θρίξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• θρίξ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G2359 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • fur idem, page 350.
  • hair idem, page 380.
• 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