κίτρον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin citrum (“citron”) < citrus, itself probably via Etruscan from Ancient Greek κέδρος (kédros).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

κῐ́τρον • (kítron) n (genitive κῐ́τρου); second declension

  1. (Koine) fruit of the citron tree

Inflection
Second declension of τὸ κῐ́τρον; τοῦ κῐ́τρου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τὸ κῐ́τρον
tò kítron		 τὼ κῐ́τρω
tṑ kítrō		 τᾰ̀ κῐ́τρᾰ
tà kítra
Genitive τοῦ κῐ́τρου
toû kítrou		 τοῖν κῐ́τροιν
toîn kítroin		 τῶν κῐ́τρων
tôn kítrōn
Dative τῷ κῐ́τρῳ
tôi kítrōi		 τοῖν κῐ́τροιν
toîn kítroin		 τοῖς κῐ́τροις
toîs kítrois
Accusative τὸ κῐ́τρον
tò kítron		 τὼ κῐ́τρω
tṑ kítrō		 τᾰ̀ κῐ́τρᾰ
tà kítra
Vocative κῐ́τρον
kítron		 κῐ́τρω
kítrō		 κῐ́τρᾰ
kítra
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • κιτρᾶτον (kitrâton)
  • κιτρέα (kitréa)
  • κίτρινος (kítrinos)
  • κίτριον (kítrion)
  • κιτρόμηλον (kitrómēlon)
  • κιτρόφυλλον (kitróphullon)
  • κιτρόφυτον (kitróphuton)
  • κιτρόχρους (kitrókhrous)

Descendants
  • Greek: κίτρο (kítro)
  • → Old Armenian: կիտրոն (kitron)
  • → Old East Slavic: китръ (kitrŭ), кидръ (kidrŭ), кидъръ (kidŭrŭ)
  • → Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: קטרונא (qiṭrōnā)
  • → Classical Syriac: ܩܛܪܝܢ (qiṭrīn)

Further reading
  • “κίτρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • κίτρον 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
  • Véronique Zech-Matterne, Girolamo Fiorentino, editors (2017), AGRUMED: Archaeology and History of Citrus Fruit in the Mediterranean Acclimatization, Diversifications, Uses‎, Naples: Publications du Centre Jean Bérard, →DOI, →ISBN
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