βακτηρία

See also: βακτήρια

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Indo-European *bak- (“rod, staff, club”), which appears to be a European substrate word. Cognates include Latin baculum and Old Irish bacc.^[1]

βακτηρῐ́ᾱ • (baktēríā) f (genitive βακτηρῐ́ᾱς); first declension

rod, staff, cane
- Ὃς φείδεται τῆς βακτηρίας μισεῖ τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ, ὁ δὲ ἀγαπῶν ἐπιμελῶς παιδεύει.Septuagint, Proverbs 13:24
  Hòs pheídetai tês baktērías miseî tòn huiòn autoû, ho dè agapôn epimelôs paideúei.
  He that spares the rod hates his son: but he that loves, carefully chastens him.
baton

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βακτηρῐ́ᾱ hē baktēríā	τὼ βακτηρῐ́ᾱ tṑ baktēríā	αἱ βακτηρῐ́αι hai baktēríai
Genitive	τῆς βακτηρῐ́ᾱς tês baktēríās	τοῖν βακτηρῐ́αιν toîn baktēríain	τῶν βακτηρῐῶν tôn baktēriôn
Dative	τῇ βακτηρῐ́ᾳ têi baktēríāi	τοῖν βακτηρῐ́αιν toîn baktēríain	ταῖς βακτηρῐ́αις taîs baktēríais
Accusative	τὴν βακτηρῐ́ᾱν tḕn baktēríān	τὼ βακτηρῐ́ᾱ tṑ baktēríā	τᾱ̀ς βακτηρῐ́ᾱς tā̀s baktēríās
Vocative	βακτηρῐ́ᾱ baktēríā	βακτηρῐ́ᾱ baktēríā	βακτηρῐ́αι baktēríai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βακτηρία”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 194

“βακτηρία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“βακτηρία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
βακτηρία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
βακτηρία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- cane idem, page 110.
- crook idem, page 185.
- crutch idem, page 187.
- rod idem, page 720.
- staff idem, page 808.
- stick idem, page 816.
- walking stick idem, page 960.
“βακτηρία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011