βάλλις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, it's probably from Pre-Greek and related to βαλαύστιον (balaústion, “flower of the pomegranate”), βάλαρις (bálaris) and βαλλωτή (ballōtḗ, “black horehound”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bál.lis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbal.lis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβal.lis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈval.lis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈva.lis/
Noun
βᾰ́λλῐς • (bállis) f (genitive βᾰ́λλεως or βᾰ́λλιθος); third declension
- (botany) a plant with wonderful medicinal properties
- Xanth. 16
- Xanth. 3
- Arc. 30.14
- Etymologicum Magnum 186.33.G.
- TheodGramm 94.17
Declension
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nominative | ἡ βᾰ́λλῐς hē bállis |
τὼ βᾰ́λλει tṑ bállei |
αἱ βᾰ́λλεις hai bálleis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς βᾰ́λλεως / βᾰ́λλιθος tês bálleōs / bállithos |
τοῖν βᾰλλέοιν toîn balléoin |
τῶν βᾰ́λλεων tôn bálleōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ βᾰ́λλει têi bállei |
τοῖν βᾰλλέοιν toîn balléoin |
ταῖς βᾰ́λλεσῐ / βᾰ́λλεσῐν taîs bállesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν βᾰ́λλῐν tḕn bállin |
τὼ βᾰ́λλει tṑ bállei |
τᾱ̀ς βᾰ́λλεις tā̀s bálleis | ||||||||||
Vocative | βᾰ́λλῐ bálli |
βᾰ́λλει bállei |
βᾰ́λλεις bálleis | ||||||||||
Notes: |
|
References
- βάλλις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βάλλις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
- βάλλις in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- 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
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.