ἐριθάκη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.ri.tʰá.kɛː/ → /e.riˈθa.ci/ → /e.riˈθa.ci/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.ri.tʰá.kɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.riˈtʰa.ke̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.riˈθa.ci/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.riˈθa.ci/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.riˈθa.ci/

Noun

ἐριθάκη • (erithákē) f (genitive ἐριθάκης); first declension

1. bee bread, sandarac (bee pollen with added honey and bee secretions, stored in brood cells)

   Synonyms: κήρῐνθος (kḗrinthos), σᾰνδᾰρᾰ́κη (sandarákē)

   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 554a.17
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 627a.22
   • Varr., RR 3.16
   • 23 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Natural History 11.17
2. soft parts of crustaceans, entrails of pigs
   • 5th century CE, Hesychius Alexandreus, Συναγωγὴ Πασῶν Λέξεων κατὰ Στοιχεῖον

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἐριθάκη; τῆς ἐριθάκης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐριθάκη hē erithákē	τὼ ἐριθάκᾱ tṑ erithákā	αἱ ἐριθάκαι hai erithákai
Genitive	τῆς ἐριθάκης tês erithákēs	τοῖν ἐριθάκαιν toîn erithákain	τῶν ἐριθακῶν tôn erithakôn
Dative	τῇ ἐριθάκῃ têi erithákēi	τοῖν ἐριθάκαιν toîn erithákain	ταῖς ἐριθάκαις taîs erithákais
Accusative	τὴν ἐριθάκην tḕn erithákēn	τὼ ἐριθάκᾱ tṑ erithákā	τᾱ̀ς ἐριθάκᾱς tā̀s erithákās
Vocative	ἐριθάκη erithákē	ἐριθάκᾱ erithákā	ἐριθάκαι erithákai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: erithacē

Further reading

• “ἐριθάκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἐριθάκη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 457