ἐλύδριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown. It has been connected with ἕλος (hélos, “marsh”), but Beekes points out that this has spiritus asper.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.lý.dri.on/ → /eˈly.ðri.on/ → /eˈli.ðri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.lý.dri.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /eˈly.dri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /eˈly.ðri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /eˈly.ðri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /eˈli.ðri.on/

Noun

ἐλῠ́δρῐον • (elŭ́drĭon) n (genitive ἐλῠδρῐ́ου); second declension

1. greater celandine (Chelidonium majus)

   Synonyms: ὀθόννᾰ (othónnă), χελιδόνιον (khelidónion)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ἐλῠ́δρῐον; τοῦ ἐλῠδρῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἐλῠ́δρῐον tò elŭ́drĭon	τὼ ἐλῠδρῐ́ω tṑ elŭdrĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ ἐλῠ́δρῐᾰ tằ elŭ́drĭă
Genitive	τοῦ ἐλῠδρῐ́ου toû elŭdrĭ́ou	τοῖν ἐλῠδρῐ́οιν toîn elŭdrĭ́oin	τῶν ἐλῠδρῐ́ων tôn elŭdrĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ ἐλῠδρῐ́ῳ tôi elŭdrĭ́ōi	τοῖν ἐλῠδρῐ́οιν toîn elŭdrĭ́oin	τοῖς ἐλῠδρῐ́οις toîs elŭdrĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ ἐλῠ́δρῐον tò elŭ́drĭon	τὼ ἐλῠδρῐ́ω tṑ elŭdrĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ ἐλῠ́δρῐᾰ tằ elŭ́drĭă
Vocative	ἐλῠ́δρῐον elŭ́drĭon	ἐλῠδρῐ́ω elŭdrĭ́ō	ἐλῠ́δρῐᾰ elŭ́drĭă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ἐλύδριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἐλύδριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἐλύδριον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἐλύδριον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 416