ὀστρακῖτις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὄστρακον (óstrakon, “earthen vessel”) +‎ -ῖτις (-îtis), feminine form of ὀστρακίτης (ostrakítēs, “earthen, made of clay”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /os.tra.kîː.tis/ → /os.traˈci.tis/ → /os.traˈci.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /os.tra.kîː.tis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /os.traˈki.tis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /os.traˈci.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /os.traˈci.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /os.traˈci.tis/

Noun

ὀστρᾰκῖτῐς • (ostrăkîtĭs) f (genitive ὀστρᾰκῑ́τῐδος); third declension

1. cadmia of inferior quality

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ὀστρᾰκῖτῐς; τῆς ὀστρᾰκῑ́τῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὀστρᾰκῖτῐς hē ostrăkîtĭs	τὼ ὀστρᾰκῑ́τῐδε tṑ ostrăkī́tĭde	αἱ ὀστρᾰκῑ́τῐδες hai ostrăkī́tĭdes
Genitive	τῆς ὀστρᾰκῑ́τῐδος tês ostrăkī́tĭdos	τοῖν ὀστρᾰκῑτῐ́δοιν toîn ostrăkītĭ́doin	τῶν ὀστρᾰκῑτῐ́δων tôn ostrăkītĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ ὀστρᾰκῑ́τῐδῐ têi ostrăkī́tĭdĭ	τοῖν ὀστρᾰκῑτῐ́δοιν toîn ostrăkītĭ́doin	ταῖς ὀστρᾰκῑ́τῐσῐ / ὀστρᾰκῑ́τῐσῐν taîs ostrăkī́tĭsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ὀστρᾰκῑ́τῐδᾰ tḕn ostrăkī́tĭdă	τὼ ὀστρᾰκῑ́τῐδε tṑ ostrăkī́tĭde	τᾱ̀ς ὀστρᾰκῑ́τῐδᾰς tā̀s ostrăkī́tĭdăs
Vocative	ὀστρᾰκῖτῐς ostrăkîtĭs	ὀστρᾰκῑ́τῐδε ostrăkī́tĭde	ὀστρᾰκῑ́τῐδες ostrăkī́tĭdes
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.

Descendants

• → Latin: ostracītis

References

• “ὀστρακῖτις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὀστρακῖτις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette