τεύκριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Maybe from an original color term, found also in τευθίς (teuthís, “squid”) and τεύθριον (teúthrion, “felty germander”) or from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /těu̯.kri.on/ → /ˈteɸ.kri.on/ → /ˈtef.kri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /těu̯.kri.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtew.kri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈteɸ.kri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈtef.kri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈtef.kri.on/

Noun

τεύκρῐον • (teúkrĭon) n (genitive τευκρῐ́ου); second declension

1. tree germander (Teucrium fruticans)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ τεύκρῐον; τοῦ τευκρῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ τεύκρῐον tò teúkrĭon	τὼ τευκρῐ́ω tṑ teukrĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ τεύκρῐᾰ tằ teúkrĭă
Genitive	τοῦ τευκρῐ́ου toû teukrĭ́ou	τοῖν τευκρῐ́οιν toîn teukrĭ́oin	τῶν τευκρῐ́ων tôn teukrĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ τευκρῐ́ῳ tôi teukrĭ́ōi	τοῖν τευκρῐ́οιν toîn teukrĭ́oin	τοῖς τευκρῐ́οις toîs teukrĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ τεύκρῐον tò teúkrĭon	τὼ τευκρῐ́ω tṑ teukrĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ τεύκρῐᾰ tằ teúkrĭă
Vocative	τεύκρῐον teúkrĭon	τευκρῐ́ω teukrĭ́ō	τεύκρῐᾰ teúkrĭă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Teucrium

Further reading

• “τεύκριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τεύκριον 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