μαργαρίτης
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See also: Μαργαρίτης
Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- μαργᾰρῑ́δης (margarī́dēs) — Ionic
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Indo-Iranian.[1] According to Beekes, possibly from Proto-Iranian *mŕ̥ga-ahri-ita- (“oyster”, literally “born from the shell of a bird”).[2] Compare Middle Persian [script needed] (mwlwʾlyt' /morwārīd/) (whence Persian مروارید (marvârid)), Sogdian [script needed] (marγārt), Sanskrit मञ्जरी (mañjarī), and Avestan 𐬨𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬌𐬌𐬀 (mərəiia).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mar.ɡa.rǐː.tɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /mar.ɡaˈri.te̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /mar.ɣaˈri.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /mar.ɣaˈri.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /mar.ɣaˈri.tis/
Noun
[edit]μαργᾰρῑ́της • (margarī́tēs) m (genitive μαργᾰρῑ́του); first declension
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μαργᾰρῑ́της ho margarī́tēs |
τὼ μαργᾰρῑ́τᾱ tṑ margarī́tā |
οἱ μαργᾰρῖται hoi margarîtai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μαργᾰρῑ́του toû margarī́tou |
τοῖν μαργᾰρῑ́ταιν toîn margarī́tain |
τῶν μαργᾰρῑτῶν tôn margarītôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μαργᾰρῑ́τῃ tôi margarī́tēi |
τοῖν μαργᾰρῑ́ταιν toîn margarī́tain |
τοῖς μαργᾰρῑ́ταις toîs margarī́tais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μαργᾰρῑ́την tòn margarī́tēn |
τὼ μαργᾰρῑ́τᾱ tṑ margarī́tā |
τοὺς μαργᾰρῑ́τᾱς toùs margarī́tās | ||||||||||
Vocative | μαργᾰρῖτᾰ margarîta |
μαργᾰρῑ́τᾱ margarī́tā |
μαργᾰρῖται margarîtai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- μάργαρον (márgaron) (back-formation)
Descendants
[edit]- Greek: μαργαρίτα (margaríta)
- → Aramaic: מרגניתא, מַרְגָּלִיתָא (margālīṯā)
- Classical Syriac: ܡܪܓܢܝܬܐ
- → Hebrew: מַרְגָּלִית (margalít)
- → English: margarite
- → Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌹𐌺𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌿𐍃 (marikreitus)
- → Latin: margarīta (see there for further descendants)
References
[edit]- ^ “Persian Loanwords and Names in Greek”, in Encyclopaedia Iranica[1], 2024 February 23 (last accessed), archived from the original on 17 May 2017
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μαργαρίτης”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 905
- “μαργαρίτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μαργαρίτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μαργαρίτης 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
- G3135 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- 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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