ὄρχις
See also: όρχις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₃erǵʰi-. Cognates include Old Armenian որձիք (orjikʿ, “testicles”), Avestan 𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬰𐬌 (ǝrǝzi), Hittite arkiš, Albanian herdhe, and Irish uirge
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ór.kʰis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈor.kʰis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈor.xis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈor.çis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈor.çis/
Noun
ὄρχις • (órkhis) m, f (genitive ὄρχεως or ὄρχῐος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ, ἡ ὄρχῐς ho, hē órkhis |
τὼ ὄρχει tṑ órkhei |
οἱ, αἱ ὄρχεις hoi, hai órkheis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ, τῆς ὄρχεως toû, tês órkheōs |
τοῖν ὀρχέοιν toîn orkhéoin |
τῶν ὄρχεων tôn órkheōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ, τῇ ὄρχει tôi, têi órkhei |
τοῖν ὀρχέοιν toîn orkhéoin |
τοῖς, ταῖς ὄρχεσῐ / ὄρχεσῐν toîs, taîs órkhesi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν, τὴν ὄρχῐν tòn, tḕn órkhin |
τὼ ὄρχει tṑ órkhei |
τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς ὄρχεις toùs, tā̀s órkheis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ὄρχῐ órkhi |
ὄρχει órkhei |
ὄρχεις órkheis | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ὀρχίδιον (orkhídion)
Further reading
- ὄρχις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὄρχις in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὄρχις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὄρχις 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
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