ὀστρύα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ὀστρυΐς (ostruḯs), ὀστρύς (ostrús)

Etymology

Frisk compares ὄστρεον (óstreon, “bivalve”) but the semantics are weak. Heubeck and Neumann suggest a Pre-Greek origin, in view of the enlargements in "-ύα", "-υΐς" and "-ύς".

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /os.trý.a/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /osˈtry.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /osˈtry.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /osˈtry.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /osˈtri.a/

Noun

ὀστρύα • (ostrúa) f (genitive ὀστρύᾱς); first declension

common hophornbeam (Ostrya carpinifolia)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ὀστρῠ́ᾰ; τῆς ὀστρῠ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὀστρῠ́ᾰ hē ostrŭ́ă	τὼ ὀστρῠ́ᾱ tṑ ostrŭ́ā	αἱ ὀστρῠ́αι hai ostrŭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς ὀστρῠ́ᾱς tês ostrŭ́ās	τοῖν ὀστρῠ́αιν toîn ostrŭ́ain	τῶν ὀστρῠῶν tôn ostrŭôn
Dative	τῇ ὀστρῠ́ᾳ têi ostrŭ́āi	τοῖν ὀστρῠ́αιν toîn ostrŭ́ain	ταῖς ὀστρῠ́αις taîs ostrŭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν ὀστρῠ́ᾰν tḕn ostrŭ́ăn	τὼ ὀστρῠ́ᾱ tṑ ostrŭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς ὀστρῠ́ᾱς tā̀s ostrŭ́ās
Vocative	ὀστρῠ́ᾰ ostrŭ́ă	ὀστρῠ́ᾱ ostrŭ́ā	ὀστρῠ́αι ostrŭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

→ Latin: ostrya
- → Translingual: Ostrya

References

“ὀστρύα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ὀστρύα 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