ὄρυζα

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See also: όρυζα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

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    Proto-Iranian *wrinǰišder.
    Ancient Greek ὄρυζα (óruza)

    A borrowing from an Eastern Iranian language, from Proto-Iranian *wrinǰiš or *wriHǰíš; compare Pashto وريژې pl (wriže). See the Iranian forms listed at Old Persian *vrinjiš, especially those without the nasal infix, for more on the etymon.[1]

    Pronunciation

     

    Noun

    ὄρυζᾰ • (óruza) f (genitive ὀρύζης); first declension

    1. rice (Oryza sativa)

    Inflection

    First declension of ἡ ὄρυζᾰ; τῆς ὀρύζης (Attic)
    Case / # Singular Dual Plural
    Nominative ἡ ὄρυζᾰ
    hē óruza     		τὼ ὀρύζᾱ
    tṑ orúzā     		αἱ ὄρυζαι
    hai óruzai
    Genitive τῆς ὀρύζης
    tês orúzēs     		τοῖν ὀρύζαιν
    toîn orúzain     		τῶν ὀρυζῶν
    tôn oruzôn
    Dative τῇ ὀρύζῃ
    têi orúzēi     		τοῖν ὀρύζαιν
    toîn orúzain     		ταῖς ὀρύζαις
    taîs orúzais
    Accusative τὴν ὄρυζᾰν
    tḕn óruzan     		τὼ ὀρύζᾱ
    tṑ orúzā     		τᾱ̀ς ὀρύζᾱς
    tā̀s orúzās
    Vocative ὄρυζᾰ
    óruza     		ὀρύζᾱ
    orúzā     		ὄρυζαι
    óruzai
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    References

    1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ὄρυζα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1112-3

    Further reading

    • “ὄρυζα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • ὄρυζα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
    • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
      • rice idem, page 712.
    • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976) “vrīhíḥ”, in Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary]‎ (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 282
    • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “vrīhí-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 597-8
    • “ὄρυζα”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
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