ἴτριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown, probably a loanword.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /í.tri.on/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈi.tri.on/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.tri.on/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.tri.on/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.tri.on/

Noun

ἴτριον • (ítrion) n (genitive ἰτρίου); second declension

cake made of sesame and honey

Inflection

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

ἰτρίνεος (itríneos)
ἰτριοπώλης (itriopṓlēs)

Descendants

→ Aramaic: אִטְרִיתָא‎
- → Hebrew: אִטְרִיָה‎ (itriyá)
- → Arabic: إِطْرِيَة‎ (ʔiṭriya)
  - → Portuguese: aletria
  - → Spanish: aletría

Further reading

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

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