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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κίτρον (kítron, “fruit of the citron tree”) + -έᾱ (-éā).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ciˈtre.a/ → /ciˈtre.a/
Noun
κῐτρέᾱ • (kitréā) f (genitive κῐτρέᾱς); first declension
- citron tree
Geoponica 10.7.8:
- Κίτρια δὲ εἰ βούλει μέλανα ποιῆσαι, μηλέας κλάδον τῇ κιτρέᾳ ἐγκέντριζε, καὶ ἀνάπαλιν.
- Kítria dè ei boúlei mélana poiêsai, mēléas kládon têi kitréāi enkéntrize, kaì anápalin.
- If you want to make dark citrons, graft a branch of an apple tree onto the citron tree, and vice versa.
Inflection
Further reading
- “κιτρέα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κιτρέα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “κιτρέα”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011