βάλαρις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from the same Pre-Greek root of other plant names, like βαλαύστιον (balaústion, “flower of the pomegranate”), βαλλωτή (ballōtḗ, “black horehound”) and βάλλις (bállis, “unknown kind of plant”).

Pronunciation

(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈba.la.ris/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβa.la.ris/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈva.la.ris/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈva.la.ris/

Noun

βάλαρις • (bálaris)

rose campion (Silene coronaria, syn. Lychnis coronaria)
Synonym: λυχνίς (lukhnís)
sea lettuce (Ulva lactuca)

References

“βάλαρις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
βάλαρις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
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

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