μυρίκη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The suffix "-ίκη" is found also in ἑλίκη (helíkē) and ἀδίκη (adíkē), leading to a possible Pre-Greek origin. However, Lewy suggests a Semitic origin, connecting the word to Arabic مُرّ‎ (murr, “bitter”) and Hebrew מֹר‎ (mor, “bitterness, acrimony”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /my.rí.kɛː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /myˈri.ke/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /myˈri.ki/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /myˈri.ci/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /miˈri.ci/

Noun

μυρίκη • (muríkē) f (genitive μυρίκης); first declension

tamarisk (plant of the genus Tamarix)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ μυρίκη; τῆς μυρίκης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μυρίκη hē muríkē	τὼ μυρίκᾱ tṑ muríkā	αἱ μυρίκαι hai muríkai
Genitive	τῆς μυρίκης tês muríkēs	τοῖν μυρίκαιν toîn muríkain	τῶν μυρικῶν tôn murikôn
Dative	τῇ μυρίκῃ têi muríkēi	τοῖν μυρίκαιν toîn muríkain	ταῖς μυρίκαις taîs muríkais
Accusative	τὴν μυρίκην tḕn muríkēn	τὼ μυρίκᾱ tṑ muríkā	τᾱ̀ς μυρίκᾱς tā̀s muríkās
Vocative	μυρίκη muríkē	μυρίκᾱ muríkā	μυρίκαι muríkai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Μυρικαῖος (Murikaîos)
μυρικίνεος (murikíneos)
μυρίκινος (muríkinos)
μυρικώδης (murikṓdēs)

Descendants

Latin: myrīcē

References

μυρίκη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
μυρίκη 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

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