στρουθός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• στροῦθος (stroûthos)

Etymology

The etymology remains highly uncertain, but Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /struː.tʰós/ → /struˈθos/ → /struˈθos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /struː.tʰós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /struˈtʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /struˈθos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /struˈθos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /struˈθos/

Noun

στρουθός • (strouthós) m or f (genitive στρουθοῦ); second declension

1. house sparrow (Passer domesticus)

   Synonym: σποργῐ́λος (sporgílos)

2. flatfish, European flounder (Platichthys flesus, syn. Pleuronectes flesus).
3. ostrich

Declension

Second declension of ὁ στρουθός; τοῦ στρουθοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ στρουθός ho strouthós	τὼ στρουθώ tṑ strouthṓ	οἱ στρουθοί hoi strouthoí
Genitive	τοῦ στρουθοῦ toû strouthoû	τοῖν στρουθοῖν toîn strouthoîn	τῶν στρουθῶν tôn strouthôn
Dative	τῷ στρουθῷ tôi strouthôi	τοῖν στρουθοῖν toîn strouthoîn	τοῖς στρουθοῖς toîs strouthoîs
Accusative	τὸν στρουθόν tòn strouthón	τὼ στρουθώ tṑ strouthṓ	τοὺς στρουθούς toùs strouthoús
Vocative	στρουθέ strouthé	στρουθώ strouthṓ	στρουθοί strouthoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• στρουθίζω (strouthízō)
• στρουθίον (strouthíon)
• στρούθιον (stroúthion)
• στρουθοκάμηλος (strouthokámēlos)

 

Further reading

• “στρουθός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• στρουθός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• στρουθός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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