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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown. Perhaps loaned from a substrate source common to Latin vitrum (“glass, dyer's woad”), Proto-Germanic *waizdaz. Beekes notes that the plant was probably named for its glass-like color.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /iː.sá.tis/ → /iˈsa.tis/ → /iˈsa.tis/
Noun
ῑ̓σάτῐς • (īsátĭs) f (genitive ῑ̓σάτῐδος); third declension
- dyer's woad (Isatis tinctoria)
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Further reading
- “ἰσάτις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἰσάτις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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
- Löw, Immanuel (1922) “Semitische Färberpflanzen”, in Zeitschrift für Semitistik und verwandte Gebiete (in German), volume 1, pages 122–135
- Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 347