μοσχάριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μόσχος (móskhos, “calf, young bull”) +‎ -ᾰ́ρῐον (-ắrĭon, diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mosˈxa.ri.on/ → /mosˈxa.ri.on/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /mosˈkʰa.ri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /mosˈxa.ri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /mosˈxa.ri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /mosˈxa.ri.on/

Noun

μοσχᾰ́ρῐον • (moskhắrĭon) n (genitive μοσχᾰρίου); second declension (Koine)

1. little calf
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Genesis 18.8
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Isaiah 11.6
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Leviticus 9.2

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ μοσχᾰ́ρῐον; τοῦ μοσχᾰρῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ μοσχᾰ́ρῐον tò moskhắrĭon	τὼ μοσχᾰρῐ́ω tṑ moskhărĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ μοσχᾰ́ρῐᾰ tằ moskhắrĭă
Genitive	τοῦ μοσχᾰρῐ́ου toû moskhărĭ́ou	τοῖν μοσχᾰρῐ́οιν toîn moskhărĭ́oin	τῶν μοσχᾰρῐ́ων tôn moskhărĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ μοσχᾰρῐ́ῳ tôi moskhărĭ́ōi	τοῖν μοσχᾰρῐ́οιν toîn moskhărĭ́oin	τοῖς μοσχᾰρῐ́οις toîs moskhărĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ μοσχᾰ́ρῐον tò moskhắrĭon	τὼ μοσχᾰρῐ́ω tṑ moskhărĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ μοσχᾰ́ρῐᾰ tằ moskhắrĭă
Vocative	μοσχᾰ́ρῐον moskhắrĭon	μοσχᾰρῐ́ω moskhărĭ́ō	μοσχᾰ́ρῐᾰ moskhắrĭă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: μοσχάρι (moschári)

Further reading

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