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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂élbʰit. Cognates include Albanian elb.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ál.pʰi.ton/ → /ˈal.ɸi.ton/ → /ˈal.fi.ton/
Noun
ἄλφιτον • (álphiton) n (genitive ἀλφίτου); second declension (chiefly in the plural)
- barley-groats, barley flour[1]
c. 8th century BCE, Homer, “Rhapsody υ”, in Odyssey, 107-8:δώδεκα πᾶσαι ἐπεῤῥώοντο γυναῖκες ἄλφιτα τεύχουσαι καὶ ἀλείατα, μυελὸν ἀνδρῶν- dṓdeka pâsai eperrhṓonto gunaîkes álphita teúkhousai kaì aleíata, muelòn andrôn
- twelve maidens, day by day, toiled grinding barleymeal and wheatmeal, the marrow of man
430 BCE, Herodotus, “Book VII, Polyymnia”, in Histories, section 119:οἱ ἀστοὶ ἄλευρά τε καὶ ἄλφιτα ἐποίευν πάντες ἐπὶ μῆνας συχνούς- hoi astoì áleurá te kaì álphita epoíeun pántes epì mênas sukhnoús
- the citizens continued to make wheatmeal and barleymeal for many months
- meal, groats
- (figuratively) one's daily bread, bread and cheese
Usage notes
Particularly differentiated from ἀλείατα (aleíata, “wheat flour”) and ἄλευρον (áleuron, “wheat flour”) (see quotes).
Inflection
See also
References
- ^ ἄλφιτον in The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek
- “ἄλφιτον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄλφιτον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἄλφιτον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἄλφιτον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.