μέταξα

See also: μεταξά and Μεταξά

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μάταξα (mátaxa), μέταξον (métaxon)

Etymology

Of unknown origin.^[1]

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mé.tak.sa/ → /ˈme.tak.sa/ → /ˈme.tak.sa/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mé.tak.sa/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈme.tak.sa/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈme.tak.sa/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈme.tak.sa/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈme.tak.sa/

Noun

μέταξα • (métaxa) f (genitive μετάξης); first declension

1. raw silk

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μέταξᾰ hē métaxa	τὼ μετάξᾱ tṑ metáxā	αἱ μέταξαι hai métaxai
Genitive	τῆς μετάξης tês metáxēs	τοῖν μετάξαιν toîn metáxain	τῶν μεταξῶν tôn metaxôn
Dative	τῇ μετάξῃ têi metáxēi	τοῖν μετάξαιν toîn metáxain	ταῖς μετάξαις taîs metáxais
Accusative	τὴν μέταξᾰν tḕn métaxan	τὼ μετάξᾱ tṑ metáxā	τᾱ̀ς μετάξᾱς tā̀s metáxās
Vocative	μέταξᾰ métaxa	μετάξᾱ metáxā	μέταξαι métaxai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

First declension of ἡ μέταξᾰ; τῆς μετάξης (Attic)

Derived terms

• μεταξάβλαττα (metaxáblatta)
• μεταξάριος (metaxários)
• μετάξιον (metáxion)
• σπαρτομέταξα (spartométaxa)

 

Descendants

• → Aramaic:
  • Classical Syriac: ܡܝܛܟܣܐ (miṭaksā)
  • Jewish Palestinian Aramaic, Jewish Literary Aramaic, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: מיטכסא / מטכסא / מטקסא (məṭaqṣā, məṭakṣā, miṭakṣā)
  • → Arabic: مِدَقْس (midaqs), دِمَقْس (dimaqs)
• → Latin: mataxa, metaxa
  • → Albanian: mëndafsh
  • Aragonese: madaxa
  • Aromanian: mãtasi, mãtase
  • → Basque: mataza
  • Catalan: madeixa
  • Dalmatian: matuos
  • French: matasse
  • Galician: madeixa
  • Italian: matassa
  • Portuguese: matassa, madeixa
  • Romanian: mătase
  • Old Spanish: madexa
    • Spanish: madeja
• → Old Armenian: մետաքս (metakʻs)
  • → Armenian: մետաքս (metakʻs)
• → Old Georgian: მეტაქსი (meṭaksi)
• → Laz: მეტაქსი (meťaksi), მეკტასი (meǩťasi) — Vizha

References

1. “μέταξα”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Further reading

• “μέταξα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μέταξα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette