ἀψινθίτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀψῐ́νθῐον (apsínthion, “wormwood”) +‎ -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs, masculine adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ap.sin.tʰǐː.tɛːs/ → /ap.sinˈθi.tis/ → /ap.sinˈθi.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ap.sin.tʰǐː.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ap.sinˈtʰi.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ap.sinˈθi.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ap.sinˈθi.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ap.sinˈθi.tis/

Noun

ἀψῐνθῑ́της • (apsinthī́tēs) m (genitive ἀψῐνθῑ́του); first declension

1. (attributive, "of wormwood", ἀψῐνθῑ́της (οἶνος)) wine prepared with wormwood, vermouth

Declension

First declension of ὁ ἀψῐνθῑ́της; τοῦ ἀψῐνθῑ́του (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἀψῐνθῑ́της ho apsinthī́tēs	τὼ ἀψῐνθῑ́τᾱ tṑ apsinthī́tā	οἱ ἀψῐνθῖται hoi apsinthîtai
Genitive	τοῦ ἀψῐνθῑ́του toû apsinthī́tou	τοῖν ἀψῐνθῑ́ταιν toîn apsinthī́tain	τῶν ἀψῐνθῑτῶν tôn apsinthītôn
Dative	τῷ ἀψῐνθῑ́τῃ tôi apsinthī́tēi	τοῖν ἀψῐνθῑ́ταιν toîn apsinthī́tain	τοῖς ἀψῐνθῑ́ταις toîs apsinthī́tais
Accusative	τὸν ἀψῐνθῑ́την tòn apsinthī́tēn	τὼ ἀψῐνθῑ́τᾱ tṑ apsinthī́tā	τοὺς ἀψῐνθῑ́τᾱς toùs apsinthī́tās
Vocative	ἀψῐνθῖτᾰ apsinthîta	ἀψῐνθῑ́τᾱ apsinthī́tā	ἀψῐνθῖται apsinthîtai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: apsinthītēs / absinthītēs
  • English: absinthites

References

• “ἀψινθίτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀψινθίτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀψινθίτης in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• ἀψινθίτης in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften