ἰσάτις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps loaned from a substrate source common to Latin vitrum (“glass, dyer's woad”), Proto-Germanic *waizdaz. Beekes notes that the plant was probably named for its glass-like color.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /iː.sá.tis/ → /iˈsa.tis/ → /iˈsa.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /iː.sá.tis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /iˈsa.tis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /iˈsa.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iˈsa.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈsa.tis/

Noun

ῑ̓σάτῐς • (īsátĭs) f (genitive ῑ̓σάτῐδος); third declension

1. dyer's woad (Isatis tinctoria)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ῑ̓σᾰ́τῐς; τῆς ῑ̓σᾰ́τῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῑ̓σᾰ́τῐς hē īsắtĭs	τὼ ῑ̓σᾰ́τῐδε tṑ īsắtĭde	αἱ ῑ̓σᾰ́τῐδες hai īsắtĭdes
Genitive	τῆς ῑ̓σᾰ́τῐδος tês īsắtĭdos	τοῖν ῑ̓σᾰτῐ́δοιν toîn īsătĭ́doin	τῶν ῑ̓σᾰτῐ́δων tôn īsătĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ ῑ̓σᾰ́τῐδῐ têi īsắtĭdĭ	τοῖν ῑ̓σᾰτῐ́δοιν toîn īsătĭ́doin	ταῖς ῑ̓σᾰ́τῐσῐ / ῑ̓σᾰ́τῐσῐν taîs īsắtĭsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ῑ̓σᾰ́τῐδᾰ tḕn īsắtĭdă	τὼ ῑ̓σᾰ́τῐδε tṑ īsắtĭde	τᾱ̀ς ῑ̓σᾰ́τῐδᾰς tā̀s īsắtĭdăs
Vocative	ῑ̓σᾰ́τῐς īsắtĭs	ῑ̓σᾰ́τῐδε īsắtĭde	ῑ̓σᾰ́τῐδες īsắtĭdes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Derived terms

• ῑ̓σατώδης (īsatṓdēs)

Descendants

• → Arabic: سُدُوس (sudūs)
• → Hebrew: אִיסָטִיס (ʾīsāṭēs), in old times also אֶסְטֵס (ʾesəṭēs), אסטס, אִסְטֵיס (ʾīsəṭēs), סטיס
• → Latin: īsatis
  • → Translingual: Isatis
• → Classical Syriac: ܐܝܣܛܝܣ (/⁠*ʾīsāṭēs⁠/), ܐܝܣܐܛܝܣ (/⁠*ʾīsāṭēs⁠/)

Further reading

• “ἰσάτις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἰσάτις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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
• Löw, Immanuel (1922) “Semitische Färberpflanzen”, in Zeitschrift für Semitistik und verwandte Gebiete‎^[1] (in German), volume 1, pages 122–135
• Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen‎^[2] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 347