μάγαδις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably from Lydian, while others have proposed a Semitic origin. Furnée compares the word with πηκτίς (pēktís, “Lydian stringed instrument”) and reconstructs a pre-form *μάγδις (*mágdis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /má.ɡa.dis/ → /ˈma.ɣa.ðis/ → /ˈma.ɣa.ðis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /má.ɡa.dis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɡa.dis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɣa.ðis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɣa.ðis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɣa.ðis/

Noun

μάγαδῐς • (mágadĭs) f (genitive μαγάδῐδος); third declension

1. kind of instrument with twenty strings arranged in octaves
2. Lydian flute producing a high and low note together

Declension

Third declension of ἡ μάγαδῐς; τῆς μαγάδῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μάγαδῐς hē mágadĭs	τὼ μαγάδῐδε tṑ magádĭde	αἱ μαγάδῐδες hai magádĭdes
Genitive	τῆς μαγάδῐδος tês magádĭdos	τοῖν μαγαδῐ́δοιν toîn magadĭ́doin	τῶν μαγαδῐ́δων tôn magadĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ μαγάδῐδῐ têi magádĭdĭ	τοῖν μαγαδῐ́δοιν toîn magadĭ́doin	ταῖς μαγάδῐσῐ / μαγάδῐσῐν taîs magádĭsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν μαγάδῐδᾰ tḕn magádĭdă	τὼ μαγάδῐδε tṑ magádĭde	τᾱ̀ς μαγάδῐδᾰς tā̀s magádĭdăs
Vocative	μάγαδῐς mágadĭs	μαγάδῐδε magádĭde	μαγάδῐδες magádĭdes
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.

Derived terms

• μαγαδίζω (magadízō)
• μαγάδιον (magádion)

Further reading

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