ὁλοθούριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ho.lo.tʰǔː.ri.on/ → /o.loˈθu.ri.on/ → /o.loˈθu.ri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ho.lo.tʰǔː.ri.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)o.loˈtʰu.ri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /o.loˈθu.ri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /o.loˈθu.ri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /o.loˈθu.ri.on/

Noun

ὁλοθούρῐον • (holothoúrĭon) n (genitive ὁλοθουρῐ́ου); second declension

1. the holothurium, a kind of zoophyte
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 1.1,28
   • 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 4.5,43
   • Pliney the Elder, Natural History 9.71

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ὁλοθούρῐον; τοῦ ὁλοθουρῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ὁλοθούρῐον tò holothoúrĭon	τὼ ὁλοθουρῐ́ω tṑ holothourĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ ὁλοθούρῐᾰ tằ holothoúrĭă
Genitive	τοῦ ὁλοθουρῐ́ου toû holothourĭ́ou	τοῖν ὁλοθουρῐ́οιν toîn holothourĭ́oin	τῶν ὁλοθουρῐ́ων tôn holothourĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ ὁλοθουρῐ́ῳ tôi holothourĭ́ōi	τοῖν ὁλοθουρῐ́οιν toîn holothourĭ́oin	τοῖς ὁλοθουρῐ́οις toîs holothourĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ ὁλοθούρῐον tò holothoúrĭon	τὼ ὁλοθουρῐ́ω tṑ holothourĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ ὁλοθούρῐᾰ tằ holothoúrĭă
Vocative	ὁλοθούρῐον holothoúrĭon	ὁλοθουρῐ́ω holothourĭ́ō	ὁλοθούρῐᾰ holothoúrĭă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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