κιτρέα
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From κίτρον (kítron, “fruit of the citron tree”) + -έᾱ (-éā).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ciˈtre.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ciˈtre.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ciˈtre.a/
Noun
[edit]κῐτρέᾱ • (kitréā) f (genitive κῐτρέᾱς); first declension
- citron tree
- Geoponica 10.7.8:
- Κίτρια δὲ εἰ βούλει μέλανα ποιῆσαι, μηλέας κλάδον τῇ κιτρέᾳ ἐγκέντριζε, καὶ ἀνάπαλιν.
- Kítria dè ei boúlei mélana poiêsai, mēléas kládon têi kitréāi enkéntrize, kaì anápalin.
- If you want to make dark citrons, graft a branch of an apple tree onto the citron tree, and vice versa.
- Κίτρια δὲ εἰ βούλει μέλανα ποιῆσαι, μηλέας κλάδον τῇ κιτρέᾳ ἐγκέντριζε, καὶ ἀνάπαλιν.
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κῐτρέᾱ hē kitréā |
τὼ κῐτρέᾱ tṑ kitréā |
αἱ κῐτρέαι hai kitréai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κῐτρέᾱς tês kitréās |
τοῖν κῐτρέαιν toîn kitréain |
τῶν κῐτρεῶν tôn kitreôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κῐτρέᾳ têi kitréāi |
τοῖν κῐτρέαιν toîn kitréain |
ταῖς κῐτρέαις taîs kitréais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κῐτρέᾱν tḕn kitréān |
τὼ κῐτρέᾱ tṑ kitréā |
τᾱ̀ς κῐτρέᾱς tā̀s kitréās | ||||||||||
Vocative | κῐτρέᾱ kitréā |
κῐτρέᾱ kitréā |
κῐτρέαι kitréai | ||||||||||
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Further reading
[edit]- “κιτρέα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κιτρέα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “κιτρέα”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
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