καρωτόν

See also: καρῶτον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From καρώ (karṓ, “caraway”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.rɔː.tón/ → /ka.roˈton/ → /ka.roˈton/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.rɔː.tón/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ka.roˈton/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ka.roˈton/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ka.roˈton/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ka.roˈton/

Noun

κᾰρωτόν • (karōtón) n (genitive κᾰρωτοῦ); second declension

1. carrot

Declension

Second declension of τὸ κᾰρωτόν; τοῦ κᾰρωτοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κᾰρωτόν tò karōtón	τὼ κᾰρωτώ tṑ karōtṓ	τᾰ̀ κᾰρωτᾰ́ tà karōtá
Genitive	τοῦ κᾰρωτοῦ toû karōtoû	τοῖν κᾰρωτοῖν toîn karōtoîn	τῶν κᾰρωτῶν tôn karōtôn
Dative	τῷ κᾰρωτῷ tôi karōtôi	τοῖν κᾰρωτοῖν toîn karōtoîn	τοῖς κᾰρωτοῖς toîs karōtoîs
Accusative	τὸ κᾰρωτόν tò karōtón	τὼ κᾰρωτώ tṑ karōtṓ	τᾰ̀ κᾰρωτᾰ́ tà karōtá
Vocative	κᾰρωτόν karōtón	κᾰρωτώ karōtṓ	κᾰρωτᾰ́ karōtá
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: carōta (from the plural, reinterpreted as a feminine singular)
  • Middle French: carotte (see there for further descendants)
  • Italian: carota
    • → Maltese: karrota
  • Romanian: carotă
  • Romansch: carota, carotta
  • → Albanian: karotë
  • → Polish: karota

Further reading

• καρωτόν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “καρωτόν”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “καρωτόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press