τιθύμαλλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably a reduplicated formation. As all words in -αλλος are Pre-Greek, the same holds for this one.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ti.tʰý.mal.los/ → /tiˈθy.mal.los/ → /tiˈθi.ma.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ti.tʰý.mal.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tiˈtʰy.mal.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /tiˈθy.mal.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tiˈθy.mal.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tiˈθi.ma.los/

Noun

τῐθῠ́μᾰλλος • (tĭthŭ́măllos) m (genitive τῐθῠμᾰ́λλου); second declension

1. petty spurge, milkweed (Euphorbia peplus)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ τῐθῠ́μᾰλλος; τοῦ τῐθῠμᾰ́λλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ τῐθῠ́μᾰλλος ho tĭthŭ́măllos	τὼ τῐθῠμᾰ́λλω tṑ tĭthŭmắllō	οἱ τῐθῠ́μᾰλλοι hoi tĭthŭ́mălloi
Genitive	τοῦ τῐθῠμᾰ́λλου toû tĭthŭmắllou	τοῖν τῐθῠμᾰ́λλοιν toîn tĭthŭmắlloin	τῶν τῐθῠμᾰ́λλων tôn tĭthŭmắllōn
Dative	τῷ τῐθῠμᾰ́λλῳ tôi tĭthŭmắllōi	τοῖν τῐθῠμᾰ́λλοιν toîn tĭthŭmắlloin	τοῖς τῐθῠμᾰ́λλοις toîs tĭthŭmắllois
Accusative	τὸν τῐθῠ́μᾰλλον tòn tĭthŭ́măllon	τὼ τῐθῠμᾰ́λλω tṑ tĭthŭmắllō	τοὺς τῐθῠμᾰ́λλους toùs tĭthŭmắllous
Vocative	τῐθῠ́μᾰλλε tĭthŭ́mălle	τῐθῠμᾰ́λλω tĭthŭmắllō	τῐθῠ́μᾰλλοι tĭthŭ́mălloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• τιθυμαλλίς (tithumallís)

Descendants

• Latin: tithymalus

Further reading

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