μανδραγόρας
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unexplained. Maybe from Old Persian *merdum gija (“plant of humans”), but it could be a folk-etymological adaptation of a foreign word.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /man.dra.ɡó.raːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /man.draˈɡo.ras/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /man.draˈɣo.ras/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /man.draˈɣo.ras/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /man.draˈɣo.ras/
Noun
[edit]μᾰνδρᾰγόρᾱς • (mandragórās) m (genitive μᾰνδρᾰγόρου); first declension
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μᾰνδρᾰγόρᾱς ho mandragórās |
τὼ μᾰνδρᾰγόρᾱ tṑ mandragórā |
οἱ μᾰνδρᾰγόραι hoi mandragórai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μᾰνδρᾰγόρου toû mandragórou |
τοῖν μᾰνδρᾰγόραιν toîn mandragórain |
τῶν μᾰνδρᾰγορῶν tôn mandragorôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μᾰνδρᾰγόρᾳ tôi mandragórāi |
τοῖν μᾰνδρᾰγόραιν toîn mandragórain |
τοῖς μᾰνδρᾰγόραις toîs mandragórais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μᾰνδρᾰγόρᾱν tòn mandragórān |
τὼ μᾰνδρᾰγόρᾱ tṑ mandragórā |
τοὺς μᾰνδρᾰγόρᾱς toùs mandragórās | ||||||||||
Vocative | μᾰνδρᾰγόρᾱ mandragórā |
μᾰνδρᾰγόρᾱ mandragórā |
μᾰνδρᾰγόραι mandragórai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- μανδραγοριζομένη (mandragorizoménē)
- μανδραγορικός (mandragorikós)
- μανδραγορίτης (mandragorítēs)
Descendants
[edit]- → Translingual: Mandragora
- → Classical Syriac: ܡܢܕܪܓܪܘܢ (mndrgrwn)
- → Latin: mandragorās (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Armenian: մանրագոր (manragor)
- → Armenian: մանրագոր (manragor) (learned)
- → Old Church Slavonic: манъдрагора (manŭdragora)
- → Romanian: mandragoră
- → Old Georgian: მანდრაგორი (mandragori), მანდრაგური (mandraguri), მარდაგონი (mardagoni)
- ⇒ Georgian: მანდრაგორა (mandragora)
Further reading
[edit]- “μανδραγόρας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μανδραγόρας 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
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- Ancient Greek nouns
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- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the first declension
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