ἐλύδριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown. It has been connected with ἕλος (hélos, “marsh”), but Beekes points out that this has spiritus asper.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.lý.dri.on/ → /eˈly.ðri.on/ → /eˈli.ðri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.lý.dri.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /eˈly.dri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /eˈly.ðri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /eˈly.ðri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /eˈli.ðri.on/

Noun

ἐλῠ́δρῐον • (elúdrion) n (genitive ἐλῠδρῐ́ου); second declension

1. greater celandine (Chelidonium majus)

   Synonyms: ὀθόννᾰ (othónna), χελιδόνιον (khelidónion)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ἐλῠ́δρῐον; τοῦ ἐλῠδρῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἐλῠ́δρῐον tò elúdrion	τὼ ἐλῠδρῐ́ω tṑ eludríō	τᾰ̀ ἐλῠ́δρῐᾰ tà elúdria
Genitive	τοῦ ἐλῠδρῐ́ου toû eludríou	τοῖν ἐλῠδρῐ́οιν toîn eludríoin	τῶν ἐλῠδρῐ́ων tôn eludríōn
Dative	τῷ ἐλῠδρῐ́ῳ tôi eludríōi	τοῖν ἐλῠδρῐ́οιν toîn eludríoin	τοῖς ἐλῠδρῐ́οις toîs eludríois
Accusative	τὸ ἐλῠ́δρῐον tò elúdrion	τὼ ἐλῠδρῐ́ω tṑ eludríō	τᾰ̀ ἐλῠ́δρῐᾰ tà elúdria
Vocative	ἐλῠ́δρῐον elúdrion	ἐλῠδρῐ́ω eludríō	ἐλῠ́δρῐᾰ elúdria
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ἐλύδριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἐλύδριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἐλύδριον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἐλύδριον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 416