πριονῖτις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πρῑ́ων (prī́ōn, “saw, trephine”) +‎ -ῖτις (-îtis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /priː.o.nîː.tis/ → /pri.oˈni.tis/ → /pri.oˈni.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /priː.o.nîː.tis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pri.oˈni.tis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pri.oˈni.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pri.oˈni.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pri.oˈni.tis/

Noun

πρῑονῖτῐς • (prīonîtis) f (genitive πρῑονῑ́τῐδος); third declension

1. betony (Betonica officinalis)

   Synonym: κέστρον (késtron)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ πρῑονῖτῐς; τῆς πρῑονῑ́τῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πρῑονῖτῐς hē prīonîtis	τὼ πρῑονῑ́τῐδε tṑ prīonī́tide	αἱ πρῑονῑ́τῐδες hai prīonī́tides
Genitive	τῆς πρῑονῑ́τῐδος tês prīonī́tidos	τοῖν πρῑονῑτῐ́δοιν toîn prīonītídoin	τῶν πρῑονῑτῐ́δων tôn prīonītídōn
Dative	τῇ πρῑονῑ́τῐδῐ têi prīonī́tidi	τοῖν πρῑονῑτῐ́δοιν toîn prīonītídoin	ταῖς πρῑονῑ́τῐσῐ / πρῑονῑ́τῐσῐν taîs prīonī́tisi(n)
Accusative	τὴν πρῑονῑ́τῐδᾰ tḕn prīonī́tida	τὼ πρῑονῑ́τῐδε tṑ prīonī́tide	τᾱ̀ς πρῑονῑ́τῐδᾰς tā̀s prīonī́tidas
Vocative	πρῑονῖτῐς prīonîtis	πρῑονῑ́τῐδε prīonī́tide	πρῑονῑ́τῐδες prīonī́tides
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• → Latin: prīonītis

Further reading

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