σμάραγδος

Ancient Greek

Borrowed from a Semitic language, related to Hebrew בָּרֶקֶת (baréket, “emerald, flashing gem”), Akkadian 𒄭𒄭 (barāqum, literally “shining”), Arabic بَرْق (barq, “lightning, flashing, shining, dazzling”) and loanwords of Semitic origin such as Sanskrit मरकत (marakata), Persian (zomorrod) and Old Armenian զմրուխտ (zmruxt).

σμᾰ́ραγδος • (smắragdos) f (genitive σμᾰράγδου); second declension

emerald
161 CE – 180 CE, Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.15:
“Ὅ τι ἄν τις ποιῇ ἢ λέγῃ, ἐμὲ δεῖ σμάραγδον εἶναι καὶ τὸ ἐμαυτοῦ χρῶμα ἔχειν.”
“Hó ti án tis poiêi ḕ légēi, emè deî smáragdon eînai kaì tò emautoû khrôma ékhein.”
“Whatever any one shall do or say, I cannot but be an emerald and keep my colour.”

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σμᾰ́ραγδος hē smắragdos	τὼ σμᾰράγδω tṑ smărágdō	αἱ σμᾰ́ραγδοι hai smắragdoi
Genitive	τῆς σμᾰράγδου tês smărágdou	τοῖν σμᾰράγδοιν toîn smărágdoin	τῶν σμᾰράγδων tôn smărágdōn
Dative	τῇ σμᾰράγδῳ têi smărágdōi	τοῖν σμᾰράγδοιν toîn smărágdoin	ταῖς σμᾰράγδοις taîs smărágdois
Accusative	τὴν σμᾰ́ραγδον tḕn smắragdon	τὼ σμᾰράγδω tṑ smărágdō	τᾱ̀ς σμᾰράγδους tā̀s smărágdous
Vocative	σμᾰ́ραγδε smắragde	σμᾰράγδω smărágdō	σμᾰ́ραγδοι smắragdoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“σμάραγδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
σμάραγδος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
G4665 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 268