ἄφθα
See also: άφθα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Sometimes linked to ἅπτω (háptō, “to fasten, join”), but more likely from Pre-Greek, because of the group -φθ-.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ápʰ.tʰa/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈapʰ.tʰa/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈaɸ.θa/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈaf.θa/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈaf.θa/
Noun
ἄφθᾰ • (áphtha) f (genitive ἄφθης); first declension
- (pathology, chiefly in the plural) aphtha, mouth ulcer, thrush
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ᾰ̓́φθᾰ hē áphtha |
τὼ ᾰ̓́φθᾱ tṑ áphthā |
αἱ ᾰ̓́φθαι hai áphthai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ᾰ̓́φθης tês áphthēs |
τοῖν ᾰ̓́φθαιν toîn áphthain |
τῶν ᾰ̓φθῶν tôn aphthôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ᾰ̓́φθῃ têi áphthēi |
τοῖν ᾰ̓́φθαιν toîn áphthain |
ταῖς ᾰ̓́φθαις taîs áphthais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ᾰ̓́φθᾰν tḕn áphthan |
τὼ ᾰ̓́φθᾱ tṑ áphthā |
τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓́φθᾱς tā̀s áphthās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ᾰ̓́φθᾰ áphtha |
ᾰ̓́φθᾱ áphthā |
ᾰ̓́φθαι áphthai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἀφθᾰ́ω (aphtháō)
- ἀφθώδης (aphthṓdēs)
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἄφθα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἄφθα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄφθα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- ἄφθα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- 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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