λάριξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Possibly from Gaulish, itself from Proto-Celtic *daru.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lá.riks/ → /ˈla.riks/ → /ˈla.riks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lá.riks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈla.riks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈla.riks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈla.riks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈla.riks/

Noun

λάριξ • (lárix) m (genitive λάρῐκος); third declension

1. larch (Larix decidua)
2. Venice turpentine

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ λάρῐξ; τῆς λάρῐκος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ λάρῐξ hē lárix	τὼ λάρῐκε tṑ lárike	αἱ λάρῐκες hai lárikes
Genitive	τῆς λάρῐκος tês lárikos	τοῖν λαρῐ́κοιν toîn laríkoin	τῶν λαρῐ́κων tôn laríkōn
Dative	τῇ λάρῐκῐ têi láriki	τοῖν λαρῐ́κοιν toîn laríkoin	ταῖς λάρῐξῐ / λάρῐξῐν taîs lárixi(n)
Accusative	τὴν λάρῐκᾰ tḕn lárika	τὼ λάρῐκε tṑ lárike	τᾱ̀ς λάρῐκᾰς tā̀s lárikas
Vocative	λάρῐξ lárix	λάρῐκε lárike	λάρῐκες lárikes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: larix
  • Franco-Provençal: larze
  • Ligurian: arzo
  • Lombard: lares, lars, larza
  • Borrowings:
    • → Basque: laritz
    • → Catalan: làrix
    • → Dutch: lariks
    • → Georgian: ლარიქსი (lariksi)
    • → Greek: λάρικας (lárikas)
    • → Irish: learóg
    • → Italian: larice
    • → Portuguese: lariço
    • → Romanian: larice
    • → Scottish Gaelic: learag
    • → Spanish: lárice
    • → Translingual: Larix
    • → Proto-West Germanic: *larikā (see there for further descendants)
    • → Serbo-Croatian: ariš
• → Translingual: Larix

Further reading

• “λάριξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• λάριξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette