βαλλωτή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, it's probably from Pre-Greek and related to βαλαύστιον (balaústion, “flower of the pomegranate”), βάλαρις (bálaris) and βάλλις (bállis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bal.lɔː.tɛ̌ː/ → /βal.loˈti/ → /va.loˈti/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bal.lɔː.tɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /bal.loˈte̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /βal.loˈti/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /val.loˈti/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /va.loˈti/

Noun

βᾰλλωτή • (ballōtḗ) f (genitive βᾰλλωτῆς); first declension

1. black horehound (Ballota nigra)

   Synonyms: γνοτέρᾱ (gnotérā), μελᾰμπρᾰ́σῐον (melamprásion)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ βᾰλλωτή; τῆς βᾰλλωτῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βᾰλλωτή hē ballōtḗ	τὼ βᾰλλωτᾱ́ tṑ ballōtā́	αἱ βᾰλλωταί hai ballōtaí
Genitive	τῆς βᾰλλωτῆς tês ballōtês	τοῖν βᾰλλωταῖν toîn ballōtaîn	τῶν βᾰλλωτῶν tôn ballōtôn
Dative	τῇ βᾰλλωτῇ têi ballōtêi	τοῖν βᾰλλωταῖν toîn ballōtaîn	ταῖς βᾰλλωταῖς taîs ballōtaîs
Accusative	τὴν βᾰλλωτήν tḕn ballōtḗn	τὼ βᾰλλωτᾱ́ tṑ ballōtā́	τᾱ̀ς βᾰλλωτᾱ́ς tā̀s ballōtā́s
Vocative	βᾰλλωτή ballōtḗ	βᾰλλωτᾱ́ ballōtā́	βᾰλλωταί ballōtaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: ballotē
• → Translingual: Ballota

Further reading

• “βαλλωτή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βαλλωτή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βαλλωτή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βαλλωτή”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 198