ἀχάτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Loaned from a non-Indo-European source, possibly Semitic (compare Aramaic עקיק). The river Ἀχάτης in Sicily is probably named after the mineral.^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.kʰǎː.tɛːs/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈkʰa.te̝s/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈxa.tis/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈxa.tis/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈxa.tis/

Noun

ᾰ̓χᾱ́της • (ăkhā́tēs) m (genitive ᾰ̓χᾱ́του); first declension

(mineralogy) agate

Declension

First declension of ὁ ᾰ̓χᾱ́της; τοῦ ᾰ̓χᾱ́του (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ᾰ̓χᾱ́της ho ăkhā́tēs	τὼ ᾰ̓χᾱ́τᾱ tṑ ăkhā́tā	οἱ ᾰ̓χᾶται hoi ăkhâtai
Genitive	τοῦ ᾰ̓χᾱ́του toû ăkhā́tou	τοῖν ᾰ̓χᾱ́ταιν toîn ăkhā́tain	τῶν ᾰ̓χᾱτῶν tôn ăkhātôn
Dative	τῷ ᾰ̓χᾱ́τῃ tōî ăkhā́tēi	τοῖν ᾰ̓χᾱ́ταιν toîn ăkhā́tain	τοῖς ᾰ̓χᾱ́ταις toîs ăkhā́tais
Accusative	τὸν ᾰ̓χᾱ́την tòn ăkhā́tēn	τὼ ᾰ̓χᾱ́τᾱ tṑ ăkhā́tā	τοὺς ᾰ̓χᾱ́τᾱς toùs ăkhā́tās
Vocative	ᾰ̓χᾶτᾰ ăkhâtă	ᾰ̓χᾱ́τᾱ ăkhā́tā	ᾰ̓χᾶται ăkhâtai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Greek: αχάτης (achátis)
→ Latin: achātēs
- Catalan: àgata
- French: agate
- Italian: agata
- Portuguese: ágata
- Spanish: ágata
- → English: agate
- → Irish: agáit
→ Middle Armenian: ագաթէս (agatʻēs), ագադէս (agadēs)
→ Old Armenian: ակատ (akat)
→ Old Georgian: აქატჱ (akaṭē)
- Georgian: აქატი (akaṭi)

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “182”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page ἀχάτης [akhátēs]