ὄρτυξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Presumably from Proto-Indo-European *wort-, whence also Sanskrit वर्तिका (vártikā), वर्तक (vartaka), but this does not account for the alternation of the ending -ῠγος (-ŭgos) ~ -ῠκος (-ŭkos), which Beekes considers characteristically Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ór.tyks/ → /ˈor.tyks/ → /ˈor.tiks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ór.tyks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈor.tyks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈor.tyks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈor.tyks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈor.tiks/

Noun

ὄρτῠξ • (órtŭx) m (genitive ὄρτῠγος or ὄρτῠκος); third declension

1. common quail (Coturnix coturnix)
2. harefoot plantain (Plantago lagopus)

   Synonyms: ἀρνόγλωσσον (arnóglōsson), στελέφουρος (steléphouros)

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ ὄρτῠξ; τοῦ ὄρτῠγος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὄρτῠξ ho órtŭx	τὼ ὄρτῠγε tṑ órtŭge	οἱ ὄρτῠγες hoi órtŭges
Genitive	τοῦ ὄρτῠγος toû órtŭgos	τοῖν ὀρτῠ́γοιν toîn ortŭ́goin	τῶν ὀρτῠ́γων tôn ortŭ́gōn
Dative	τῷ ὄρτῠγῐ tôi órtŭgĭ	τοῖν ὀρτῠ́γοιν toîn ortŭ́goin	τοῖς ὄρτῠξῐ / ὄρτῠξῐν toîs órtŭxĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν ὄρτῠγᾰ tòn órtŭgă	τὼ ὄρτῠγε tṑ órtŭge	τοὺς ὄρτῠγᾰς toùs órtŭgăs
Vocative	ὄρτῠξ órtŭx	ὄρτῠγε órtŭge	ὄρτῠγες órtŭges
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Third declension of ὁ ὄρτῠξ; τοῦ ὄρτῠκος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὄρτῠξ ho órtŭx	τὼ ὄρτῠκε tṑ órtŭke	οἱ ὄρτῠκες hoi órtŭkes
Genitive	τοῦ ὄρτῠκος toû órtŭkos	τοῖν ὀρτῠ́κοιν toîn ortŭ́koin	τῶν ὀρτῠ́κων tôn ortŭ́kōn
Dative	τῷ ὄρτῠκῐ tôi órtŭkĭ	τοῖν ὀρτῠ́κοιν toîn ortŭ́koin	τοῖς ὄρτῠξῐ / ὄρτῠξῐν toîs órtŭxĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν ὄρτῠκᾰ tòn órtŭkă	τὼ ὄρτῠκε tṑ órtŭke	τοὺς ὄρτῠκᾰς toùs órtŭkăs
Vocative	ὄρτῠξ órtŭx	ὄρτῠκε órtŭke	ὄρτῠκες órtŭkes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ὀρτῠγῐ́ᾱ (Ortŭgĭ́ā)
• ὀρτῠ́γῐον (ortŭ́gĭon)
• ὀρτῠγοθήρᾱς (ortŭgothḗrās)
• ὀρτῠγοκόμος (ortŭgokómos)
• ὀρτῠγόκομτος (ortŭgókomtos)
• ὀρτῠγοκοπέω (ortŭgokopéō)
• ὀρτῠγοκοπῐ́ᾱ (ortŭgokopĭ́ā)
• ὀρτῠγοκοπῐκός (ortŭgokopĭkós)
• ὀρτῠγόκοπος (ortŭgókopos)
• ὀρτῠγομᾰνῐ́ᾱ (ortŭgomănĭ́ā)
• ὀρτῠγομήτρᾱ (ortŭgomḗtrā)
• ὀρτῠγοπώλης (ortŭgopṓlēs)
• ὀρτῠγοτροφεῖον (ortŭgotropheîon)
• ὀρτῠγοτροφέω (ortŭgotrophéō)
• ὀρτῠγοτρόφος (ortŭgotróphos)
• ὀρτύκιον (ortúkion)

Descendants

• → Latin: ortyx

Further reading

• “ὄρτυξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὄρτυξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὄρτυξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • quail idem, page 662.
• 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