χρυσαλλίς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From χρῡσός (khrūsós, “gold”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰryː.sal.lís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kʰry.salˈlis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /xry.salˈlis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /xry.salˈlis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /xri.saˈlis/
Noun
χρῡσαλλίς • (khrūsallís) f (genitive χρῡσαλλίδος); third declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ χρῡσᾰλλῐ́ς hē khrūsăllĭ́s |
τὼ χρῡσᾰλλῐ́δε tṑ khrūsăllĭ́de |
αἱ χρῡσᾰλλῐ́δες hai khrūsăllĭ́des | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς χρῡσᾰλλῐ́δος tês khrūsăllĭ́dos |
τοῖν χρῡσᾰλλῐ́δοιν toîn khrūsăllĭ́doin |
τῶν χρῡσᾰλλῐ́δων tôn khrūsăllĭ́dōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ χρῡσᾰλλῐ́δῐ tēî khrūsăllĭ́dĭ |
τοῖν χρῡσᾰλλῐ́δοιν toîn khrūsăllĭ́doin |
ταῖς χρῡσᾰλλῐ́σῐ / χρῡσᾰλλῐ́σῐν taîs khrūsăllĭ́sĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν χρῡσᾰλλῐ́δᾰ tḕn khrūsăllĭ́dă |
τὼ χρῡσᾰλλῐ́δε tṑ khrūsăllĭ́de |
τᾱ̀ς χρῡσᾰλλῐ́δᾰς tā̀s khrūsăllĭ́dăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | χρῡσᾰλλῐ́ khrūsăllĭ́ |
χρῡσᾰλλῐ́δε khrūsăllĭ́de |
χρῡσᾰλλῐ́δες khrūsăllĭ́des | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: χρυσαλλίδα (chrysallída)
- → Latin: chrysalis
- Catalan: crisàlide
- → English: chrysalis
- French: chrysalide
- Italian: crisalide
- → Translingual: Chrysallis
Further reading
- χρυσαλλίς, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “χρυσαλλίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- χρυσαλλίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- χρυσαλλίς in Pape, Wilhelm (1914), Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn