ὄρτυξ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Presumably from Proto-Indo-European *wort-, whence also Sanskrit वर्ति॑का (vártikā), वर्तक (vartaka), but this does not account for the alternation of the ending -ῠγος (-ŭgos) ~ -ῠκος (-ŭkos), which Beekes considers characteristically Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ór.tyks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈor.tyks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈor.tyks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈor.tyks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈor.tiks/
Noun
ὄρτῠξ • (órtŭx) m (genitive ὄρτῠγος or ὄρτῠκος); third declension
- common quail (Coturnix coturnix)
- harefoot plantain (Plantago lagopus)
- Synonyms: ἀρνόγλωσσον (arnóglōsson), στελέφουρος (steléphouros)
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ ὄρτῠξ ho órtŭx |
τὼ ὄρτῠγε / ὄρτῠκε tṑ órtŭge / órtŭke |
οἱ ὄρτῠγες / ὄρτῠκες hoi órtŭges / órtŭkes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ὄρτῠγος / ὄρτῠκος toû órtŭgos / órtŭkos |
τοῖν ὀρτῠ́γοιν / ὀρτῠ́κοιν toîn ortŭ́goin / ortŭ́koin |
τῶν ὀρτῠ́γων / ὀρτῠ́κων tôn ortŭ́gōn / ortŭ́kōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ὄρτῠγῐ / ὄρτῠκῐ tōî órtŭgĭ / órtŭkĭ |
τοῖν ὀρτῠ́γοιν / ὀρτῠ́κοιν toîn ortŭ́goin / ortŭ́koin |
τοῖς ὄρτῠξῐ / ὄρτῠξῐν toîs órtŭxĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν ὄρτῠγᾰ / ὄρτῠκᾰ tòn órtŭgă / órtŭkă |
τὼ ὄρτῠγε / ὄρτῠκε tṑ órtŭge / órtŭke |
τοὺς ὄρτῠγᾰς / ὄρτῠκᾰς toùs órtŭgăs / órtŭkăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ὄρτῠξ órtŭx |
ὄρτῠγε / ὄρτῠκε órtŭge / órtŭke |
ὄρτῠγες / ὄρτῠκες órtŭges / órtŭkes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Ὀρτῠγῐ́ᾱ (Ortŭgĭ́ā)
- ὀρτῠ́γῐον (ortŭ́gĭon)
- ὀρτῠγοθήρᾱς (ortŭgothḗrās)
- ὀρτῠγοκόμος (ortŭgokómos)
- ὀρτῠγόκομτος (ortŭgókomtos)
- ὀρτῠγοκοπέω (ortŭgokopéō)
- ὀρτῠγοκοπῐ́ᾱ (ortŭgokopĭ́ā)
- ὀρτῠγοκοπῐκός (ortŭgokopĭkós)
- ὀρτῠγόκοπος (ortŭgókopos)
- ὀρτῠγομᾰνῐ́ᾱ (ortŭgomănĭ́ā)
- ὀρτῠγομήτρᾱ (ortŭgomḗtrā)
- ὀρτῠγοπώλης (ortŭgopṓlēs)
- ὀρτῠγοτροφεῖον (ortŭgotropheîon)
- ὀρτῠγοτροφέω (ortŭgotrophéō)
- ὀρτῠγοτρόφος (ortŭgotróphos)
- ὀρτύκιον (ortúkion)
Descendants
- → Latin: ortyx
Further reading
- “ὄρτυξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὄρτυξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὄρτυξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- quail idem, page 662.
- 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, →ISBN