ὄρτυξ
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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 (-ugos) ~ -ῠκος (-ukos), which Beekes considers characteristically Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ór.tyks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈor.tyks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈor.tyks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈor.tyks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈor.tiks/
Noun
[edit]ὄρτῠξ • (órtux) m (genitive ὄρτῠγος or ὄρτῠκος); third declension
- common quail (Coturnix coturnix)
- harefoot plantain (Plantago lagopus)
- Synonyms: ἀρνόγλωσσον (arnóglōsson), στελέφουρος (steléphouros)
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ὄρτῠξ ho órtux |
τὼ ὄρτῠγε tṑ órtuge |
οἱ ὄρτῠγες hoi órtuges | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ὄρτῠγος toû órtugos |
τοῖν ὀρτῠ́γοιν toîn ortúgoin |
τῶν ὀρτῠ́γων tôn ortúgōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ὄρτῠγῐ tôi órtugi |
τοῖν ὀρτῠ́γοιν toîn ortúgoin |
τοῖς ὄρτῠξῐ / ὄρτῠξῐν toîs órtuxi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ὄρτῠγᾰ tòn órtuga |
τὼ ὄρτῠγε tṑ órtuge |
τοὺς ὄρτῠγᾰς toùs órtugas | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὄρτῠξ órtux |
ὄρτῠγε órtuge |
ὄρτῠγες órtuges | ||||||||||
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Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ὄρτῠξ ho órtux |
τὼ ὄρτῠκε tṑ órtuke |
οἱ ὄρτῠκες hoi órtukes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ὄρτῠκος toû órtukos |
τοῖν ὀρτῠ́κοιν toîn ortúkoin |
τῶν ὀρτῠ́κων tôn ortúkōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ὄρτῠκῐ tôi órtuki |
τοῖν ὀρτῠ́κοιν toîn ortúkoin |
τοῖς ὄρτῠξῐ / ὄρτῠξῐν toîs órtuxi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ὄρτῠκᾰ tòn órtuka |
τὼ ὄρτῠκε tṑ órtuke |
τοὺς ὄρτῠκᾰς toùs órtukas | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὄρτῠξ órtux |
ὄρτῠκε órtuke |
ὄρτῠκες órtukes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- Ὀρτῠγῐ́ᾱ (Ortugíā)
- ὀρτῠ́γῐον (ortúgion)
- ὀρτῠγοθήρᾱς (ortugothḗrās)
- ὀρτῠγοκόμος (ortugokómos)
- ὀρτῠγόκομτος (ortugókomtos)
- ὀρτῠγοκοπέω (ortugokopéō)
- ὀρτῠγοκοπῐ́ᾱ (ortugokopíā)
- ὀρτῠγοκοπῐκός (ortugokopikós)
- ὀρτῠγόκοπος (ortugókopos)
- ὀρτῠγομᾰνῐ́ᾱ (ortugomaníā)
- ὀρτῠγομήτρᾱ (ortugomḗtrā)
- ὀρτῠγοπώλης (ortugopṓlēs)
- ὀρτῠγοτροφεῖον (ortugotropheîon)
- ὀρτῠγοτροφέω (ortugotrophéō)
- ὀρτῠγοτρόφος (ortugotróphos)
- ὀρτύκιον (ortúkion)
Descendants
[edit]- → Latin: ortyx
Further reading
[edit]- “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
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