ἐριθάκη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

Noun

ἐριθάκη • (erithákē) f (genitive ἐριθάκης); first declension

1. bee bread, sandarac (bee pollen with added honey and bee secretions, stored in brood cells)

   Synonyms: κήρῐνθος (kḗrinthos), σᾰνδᾰρᾰ́κη (sandarákē)

   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 554a.17
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 627a.22
   • Varr., RR 3.16
   • 23 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Natural History 11.17
2. soft parts of crustaceans, entrails of pigs
   • 5th century CE, Hesychius Alexandreus, Συναγωγὴ Πασῶν Λέξεων κατὰ Στοιχεῖον

Declension

Descendants

• → Latin: erithacē

Further reading

• “ἐριθάκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἐριθάκη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 457