ἐρύσιμον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

εἰρῠ́σῐμον (eirŭ́sĭmon)

Etymology

According to Beekes, from ἔρυμαι (érumai, “to protect, to save”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.rý.si.mon/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /eˈry.si.mon/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /eˈry.si.mon/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /eˈry.si.mon/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /eˈri.si.mon/

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Noun

ἐρῠ́σῐμον • (erŭ́sĭmon) n (genitive ἐρῠσῐ́μου); second declension

hedge-mustard, Sisymbrium polyceratium
- 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 8.3.1
- 40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, Materia medica 2.158
- 200 BCE – 100 BCE, Nicander, Theriaca 894
- Orph., A. 917

Declension

Second declension of τὸ ἐρῠ́σῐμον; τοῦ ἐρῠσῐ́μου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἐρῠ́σῐμον tò erŭ́sĭmon	τὼ ἐρῠσῐ́μω tṑ erŭsĭ́mō	τᾰ̀ ἐρῠ́σῐμᾰ tằ erŭ́sĭmă
Genitive	τοῦ ἐρῠσῐ́μου toû erŭsĭ́mou	τοῖν ἐρῠσῐ́μοιν toîn erŭsĭ́moin	τῶν ἐρῠσῐ́μων tôn erŭsĭ́mōn
Dative	τῷ ἐρῠσῐ́μῳ tôi erŭsĭ́mōi	τοῖν ἐρῠσῐ́μοιν toîn erŭsĭ́moin	τοῖς ἐρῠσῐ́μοις toîs erŭsĭ́mois
Accusative	τὸ ἐρῠ́σῐμον tò erŭ́sĭmon	τὼ ἐρῠσῐ́μω tṑ erŭsĭ́mō	τᾰ̀ ἐρῠ́σῐμᾰ tằ erŭ́sĭmă
Vocative	ἐρῠ́σῐμον erŭ́sĭmon	ἐρῠσῐ́μω erŭsĭ́mō	ἐρῠ́σῐμᾰ erŭ́sĭmă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Latin: erysimon

References

“ἐρύσῐμον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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