ἐρύσιμον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• εἰρῠ́σῐμον (eirúsimon)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.rý.si.mon/ → /eˈry.si.mon/ → /eˈri.si.mon/

• (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/

Noun

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

1. 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 erúsimon	τὼ ἐρῠσῐ́μω tṑ erusímō	τᾰ̀ ἐρῠ́σῐμᾰ tà erúsima
Genitive	τοῦ ἐρῠσῐ́μου toû erusímou	τοῖν ἐρῠσῐ́μοιν toîn erusímoin	τῶν ἐρῠσῐ́μων tôn erusímōn
Dative	τῷ ἐρῠσῐ́μῳ tôi erusímōi	τοῖν ἐρῠσῐ́μοιν toîn erusímoin	τοῖς ἐρῠσῐ́μοις toîs erusímois
Accusative	τὸ ἐρῠ́σῐμον tò erúsimon	τὼ ἐρῠσῐ́μω tṑ erusímō	τᾰ̀ ἐρῠ́σῐμᾰ tà erúsima
Vocative	ἐρῠ́σῐμον erúsimon	ἐρῠσῐ́μω erusímō	ἐρῠ́σῐμᾰ erúsima
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