βαλαύστιον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • βᾰλώστῐον (bălṓstĭon)

Etymology

Put by Beekes as acquired via Pre-Greek, because of the ⟨αυ⟩ / ⟨ω⟩ variation[1] and the similar prefix shared by other phytonyms, such as βᾰ́λᾰρῐς (bắlărĭs, an unknown plant), βᾰλλωτή (băllōtḗ, “black horehound”) and βᾰ́λλῐς (bắllĭs, “a plant with wonderful medicinal properties”). Given its late date, however explained as a Semitic borrowing close to Classical Syriac ܒܠܳܨܳܐ (blāṣā, “bud, shoot; the part of a pomegranate fruit when it ripened to split”)[2][3] to the satisfaction of 19th-century philologists[4][5][6][7][8][9] already. See also Arabic رُمَّان (rummān) for another difficult pomegranate term.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

βᾰλαύστῐον • (bălaústĭon) n (genitive βᾰλαυστῐ́ου); second declension

  1. flower of the wild pomegranate
    Synonym: κῠ́τῐνος (kŭ́tĭnos)

Declension

Second declension of τὸ βᾰλαύστῐον; τοῦ βᾰλαυστῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τὸ βᾰλαύστῐον
tò bălaústĭon 		τὼ βᾰλαυστῐ́ω
tṑ bălaustĭ́ō 		τᾰ̀ βᾰλαύστῐᾰ
tằ bălaústĭă
Genitive τοῦ βᾰλαυστῐ́ου
toû bălaustĭ́ou 		τοῖν βᾰλαυστῐ́οιν
toîn bălaustĭ́oin 		τῶν βᾰλαυστῐ́ων
tôn bălaustĭ́ōn
Dative τῷ βᾰλαυστῐ́ῳ
tōî bălaustĭ́ōi 		τοῖν βᾰλαυστῐ́οιν
toîn bălaustĭ́oin 		τοῖς βᾰλαυστῐ́οις
toîs bălaustĭ́ois
Accusative τὸ βᾰλαύστῐον
tò bălaústĭon 		τὼ βᾰλαυστῐ́ω
tṑ bălaustĭ́ō 		τᾰ̀ βᾰλαύστῐᾰ
tằ bălaústĭă
Vocative βᾰλαύστῐον
bălaústĭon 		βᾰλαυστῐ́ω
bălaustĭ́ō 		βᾰλαύστῐᾰ
bălaústĭă
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Latin: balaustium

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “βαλαύστιον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 195-6
  2. ^ Sokoloff, Michael (2009), A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, Winona Lake, Indiana; Piscataway, New Jersey: Eisenbrauns; Gorgias Press, →ISBN, page 160
  3. ^ “blṣ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  4. ^ Fischer-Benzon, Rudolf von (1894), Altdeutsche Gartenflora (in German), Kiel und Leipzig: Lipsius & Tischer, page 35
  5. ^ Hehn, Victor with Schrader, Otto (1911), Kulturpflanzen und Haustiere in ihrem Übergang aus Asien nach Griechenland und Italien sowie in das übrige Europa‎[1] (in German), 8th edition, Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, page 248
  6. ^ Lewy, Heinrich (1895), Die semitischen Fremdwörter im Griechischen (in German), Berlin: R. Gaertner’s Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 25
  7. ^ Löw, Immanuel (1881), Aramæische Pflanzennamen‎[2] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, →DOI, page 364
  8. ^ Löw, Immanuel (1924), Die Flora der Juden‎[3] (in German), volume 3, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 92-93
  9. ^ Nöldeke, Theodor (1881), “Löw, Imm.: aramäische Pflanzennamen, Leipzig, 1881. Engelmann (VIII, 490 S. Lex. 8) M. 20”, in Literarisches Centralblatt für Deutschland‎[4] (in German), volume 32, number 22, column 768

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