βάλλις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bál.lis/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbal.lis/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβal.lis/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈval.lis/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈva.lis/

Noun

βᾰ́λλῐς • (bállis) f (genitive βᾰ́λλεως or βᾰ́λλιθος); third declension

(botany) a plant with wonderful medicinal properties
- Xanth. 16
- Xanth. 3
- Arc. 30.14
- Etymologicum Magnum 186.33.G.
- TheodGramm 94.17

Declension

Third declension of ἡ βᾰ́λλῐς; τῆς βᾰ́λλεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βᾰ́λλῐς hē bállis	τὼ βᾰ́λλει tṑ bállei	αἱ βᾰ́λλεις hai bálleis
Genitive	τῆς βᾰ́λλεως / βᾰ́λλιθος tês bálleōs / bállithos	τοῖν βᾰλλέοιν toîn balléoin	τῶν βᾰ́λλεων tôn bálleōn
Dative	τῇ βᾰ́λλει têi bállei	τοῖν βᾰλλέοιν toîn balléoin	ταῖς βᾰ́λλεσῐ / βᾰ́λλεσῐν taîs bállesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν βᾰ́λλῐν tḕn bállin	τὼ βᾰ́λλει tṑ bállei	τᾱ̀ς βᾰ́λλεις tā̀s bálleis
Vocative	βᾰ́λλῐ bálli	βᾰ́λλει bállei	βᾰ́λλεις bálleis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

βάλλις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
βάλλις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
βάλλις in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
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

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