ὄστριμον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Improbable hypothesis by Bezzenberger, who reconstructs *h₂odʰ-tro-, comparing Proto-Germanic *edaraz (“enclosure, shelter”) and Proto-Slavic *òdrъ (“bed”): both the Greek suffixation and the formation in *-tro- remain unexplained. According to Frisk, this word belongs to ὄστρακον (óstrakon, “earthen vessel”) and ὄστρεον (óstreon, “oyster”), assuming a prior meaning "protecting roof", for which he gives a parallel in Latin testudō (“tortoise; protecting roof”). Since there is no Indo-European etymology, the word may be Pre-Greek, although there appears no further indication for this.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ós.tri.mon/ → /ˈos.tri.mon/ → /ˈos.tri.mon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ós.tri.mon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈos.tri.mon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈos.tri.mon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈos.tri.mon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈos.tri.mon/

Noun

ὄστρῐμον • (óstrimon) n (genitive ὀστρῐ́μου); second declension

1. byre, stable, fold, enclosure for cattle

   Synonym: μᾰ́νδρᾱ (mándrā)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ὄστρῐμον; τοῦ ὀστρῐ́μου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ὄστρῐμον tò óstrimon	τὼ ὀστρῐ́μω tṑ ostrímō	τᾰ̀ ὄστρῐμᾰ tà óstrima
Genitive	τοῦ ὀστρῐ́μου toû ostrímou	τοῖν ὀστρῐ́μοιν toîn ostrímoin	τῶν ὀστρῐ́μων tôn ostrímōn
Dative	τῷ ὀστρῐ́μῳ tôi ostrímōi	τοῖν ὀστρῐ́μοιν toîn ostrímoin	τοῖς ὀστρῐ́μοις toîs ostrímois
Accusative	τὸ ὄστρῐμον tò óstrimon	τὼ ὀστρῐ́μω tṑ ostrímō	τᾰ̀ ὄστρῐμᾰ tà óstrima
Vocative	ὄστρῐμον óstrimon	ὀστρῐ́μω ostrímō	ὄστρῐμᾰ óstrima
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ὄστριμον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὄστριμον 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