ἀδάρκη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀδᾰ́ρκης (adárkēs), ἄδᾰρκος (ádarkos)

Etymology

According to Beekes, it is a loanword from Gaulish: compare Old Irish adarc (“horn”), which is probably from the same source as Basque adar (“horn”) with a Celtic suffix -k.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.dár.kɛː/ → /aˈðar.ci/ → /aˈðar.ci/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.dár.kɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈdar.ke̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈðar.ci/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈðar.ci/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈðar.ci/

Noun

ἀδᾰ́ρκη • (adárkē) f (genitive ἀδᾰ́ρκης); first declension

1. salt efflorescence on the herbage of marshes

   Synonym: κᾰλᾰμόχνοος (kalamókhnoos)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἀδᾰ́ρκη; τῆς ἀδᾰ́ρκης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀδᾰ́ρκη hē adárkē	τὼ ἀδᾰ́ρκᾱ tṑ adárkā	αἱ ἀδᾰ́ρκαι hai adárkai
Genitive	τῆς ἀδᾰ́ρκης tês adárkēs	τοῖν ἀδᾰ́ρκαιν toîn adárkain	τῶν ἀδᾰρκῶν tôn adarkôn
Dative	τῇ ἀδᾰ́ρκῃ têi adárkēi	τοῖν ἀδᾰ́ρκαιν toîn adárkain	ταῖς ἀδᾰ́ρκαις taîs adárkais
Accusative	τὴν ἀδᾰ́ρκην tḕn adárkēn	τὼ ἀδᾰ́ρκᾱ tṑ adárkā	τᾱ̀ς ἀδᾰ́ρκᾱς tā̀s adárkās
Vocative	ἀδᾰ́ρκη adárkē	ἀδᾰ́ρκᾱ adárkā	ἀδᾰ́ρκαι adárkai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: adarca

Further reading

• “ἀδάρκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀδάρκη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀδάρκη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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