ἀδάρκη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ἀδᾰ́ρκης (adắrkēs), ἄδᾰρκος (ádărkos)

Etymology

According to Beekes, it is a loanword from Gaulish: compare Old Irish adarc (“horn”), which is probably from the same source as Basque adar (“horn”) with a Celtic suffix -k.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.dár.kɛː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈdar.ke̝/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈðar.ci/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈðar.ci/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈðar.ci/

Noun

ἀδᾰ́ρκη • (adắrkē) f (genitive ἀδᾰ́ρκης); first declension

salt efflorescence on the herbage of marshes
Synonym: κᾰλᾰμόχνοος (kălămókhnoos)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἀδᾰ́ρκη; τῆς ἀδᾰ́ρκης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀδᾰ́ρκη hē adắrkē	τὼ ἀδᾰ́ρκᾱ tṑ adắrkā	αἱ ἀδᾰ́ρκαι hai adắrkai
Genitive	τῆς ἀδᾰ́ρκης tês adắrkēs	τοῖν ἀδᾰ́ρκαιν toîn adắrkain	τῶν ἀδᾰρκῶν tôn adărkôn
Dative	τῇ ἀδᾰ́ρκῃ têi adắrkēi	τοῖν ἀδᾰ́ρκαιν toîn adắrkain	ταῖς ἀδᾰ́ρκαις taîs adắrkais
Accusative	τὴν ἀδᾰ́ρκην tḕn adắrkēn	τὼ ἀδᾰ́ρκᾱ tṑ adắrkā	τᾱ̀ς ἀδᾰ́ρκᾱς tā̀s adắrkās
Vocative	ἀδᾰ́ρκη adắrkē	ἀδᾰ́ρκᾱ adắrkā	ἀδᾰ́ρκαι adắrkai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

→ Latin: adarca

“ἀδάρκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ἀδάρκη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἀδάρκη 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