μαλάβαθρον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Sanskrit तमालपत्त्र (tamālapattra, “leaf of cinnamon”, literally “dark tree leaves”), from तमस् (tamas, “dark”) + पत्त्र (pattra, “leaf”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /maː.lá.ba.tʰron/ → /maˈla.βa.θron/ → /maˈla.va.θron/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /maː.lá.ba.tʰron/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /maˈla.ba.tʰron/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /maˈla.βa.θron/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /maˈla.va.θron/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /maˈla.va.θron/

Noun

μᾱλᾰ́βᾰθρον • (mālábathron) n (genitive μᾱλᾰβᾰ́θρου); second declension

1. malabathrum, Indian bay leaf, Malabar leaf (Cinnamomum tamala)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ μᾱλᾰ́βᾰθρον; τοῦ μᾱλᾰβᾰ́θρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ μᾱλᾰ́βᾰθρον tò mālábathron	τὼ μᾱλᾰβᾰ́θρω tṑ mālabáthrō	τᾰ̀ μᾱλᾰ́βᾰθρᾰ tà mālábathra
Genitive	τοῦ μᾱλᾰβᾰ́θρου toû mālabáthrou	τοῖν μᾱλᾰβᾰ́θροιν toîn mālabáthroin	τῶν μᾱλᾰβᾰ́θρων tôn mālabáthrōn
Dative	τῷ μᾱλᾰβᾰ́θρῳ tôi mālabáthrōi	τοῖν μᾱλᾰβᾰ́θροιν toîn mālabáthroin	τοῖς μᾱλᾰβᾰ́θροις toîs mālabáthrois
Accusative	τὸ μᾱλᾰ́βᾰθρον tò mālábathron	τὼ μᾱλᾰβᾰ́θρω tṑ mālabáthrō	τᾰ̀ μᾱλᾰ́βᾰθρᾰ tà mālábathra
Vocative	μᾱλᾰ́βᾰθρον mālábathron	μᾱλᾰβᾰ́θρω mālabáthrō	μᾱλᾰ́βᾰθρᾰ mālábathra
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• μαλαβάθρινος (malabáthrinos)

Descendants

• → English: malabathrum

Further reading

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