ἀβυρτάκη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably from Old Persian, because Theopompus wrote that this sauce was made in Media.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.byr.tá.kɛː/ → /a.βyrˈta.ci/ → /a.virˈta.ci/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.byr.tá.kɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.byrˈta.ke̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.βyrˈta.ci/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.vyrˈta.ci/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.virˈta.ci/

Noun

ἀβῠρτᾰ́κη • (abŭrtắkē) f (genitive ἀβῠρτᾰ́κης); first declension

1. sour sauce of leeks, cress and pomegranate seeds

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἀβῠρτᾰ́κη; τῆς ἀβῠρτᾰ́κης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀβῠρτᾰ́κη hē abŭrtắkē	τὼ ἀβῠρτᾰ́κᾱ tṑ abŭrtắkā	αἱ ἀβῠρτᾰ́και hai abŭrtắkai
Genitive	τῆς ἀβῠρτᾰ́κης tês abŭrtắkēs	τοῖν ἀβῠρτᾰ́καιν toîn abŭrtắkain	τῶν ἀβῠρτᾰκῶν tôn abŭrtăkôn
Dative	τῇ ἀβῠρτᾰ́κῃ têi abŭrtắkēi	τοῖν ἀβῠρτᾰ́καιν toîn abŭrtắkain	ταῖς ἀβῠρτᾰ́καις taîs abŭrtắkais
Accusative	τὴν ἀβῠρτᾰ́κην tḕn abŭrtắkēn	τὼ ἀβῠρτᾰ́κᾱ tṑ abŭrtắkā	τᾱ̀ς ἀβῠρτᾰ́κᾱς tā̀s abŭrtắkās
Vocative	ἀβῠρτᾰ́κη abŭrtắkē	ἀβῠρτᾰ́κᾱ abŭrtắkā	ἀβῠρτᾰ́και abŭrtắkai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀβῠρτᾰκοποιός (abŭrtăkopoiós)
• ἀβῠρτᾰκώδης (abŭrtăkṓdēs)

Further reading

• “ἀβυρτάκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀβυρτάκη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀβυρτάκη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• 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