νάρθηξ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• νάθραξ (náthrax)

Etymology

According to Beekes, the presence of a variant and the ending in -ξ (-x) indicate a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /nár.tʰɛːks/ → /ˈnar.θiks/ → /ˈnar.θiks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /nár.tʰɛːks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈnar.tʰe̝ks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈnar.θiks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈnar.θiks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈnar.θiks/

Noun

νᾰ́ρθηξ • (nárthēx) m (genitive νᾰ́ρθηκος); third declension

1. giant fennel (Ferula communis)
2. casket for unguents
3. (architecture) vestibule in a church

Declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ νᾰ́ρθηξ ho nárthēx	τὼ νᾰ́ρθηκε tṑ nárthēke	οἱ νᾰ́ρθηκες hoi nárthēkes
Genitive	τοῦ νᾰ́ρθηκος toû nárthēkos	τοῖν νᾰρθήκοιν toîn narthḗkoin	τῶν νᾰρθήκων tôn narthḗkōn
Dative	τῷ νᾰ́ρθηκῐ tôi nárthēki	τοῖν νᾰρθήκοιν toîn narthḗkoin	τοῖς νᾰ́ρθηξῐ / νᾰ́ρθηξῐν toîs nárthēxi(n)
Accusative	τὸν νᾰ́ρθηκᾰ tòn nárthēka	τὼ νᾰ́ρθηκε tṑ nárthēke	τοὺς νᾰ́ρθηκᾰς toùs nárthēkas
Vocative	νᾰ́ρθηξ nárthēx	νᾰ́ρθηκε nárthēke	νᾰ́ρθηκες nárthēkes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Third declension of ὁ νᾰ́ρθηξ; τοῦ νᾰ́ρθηκος (Attic)

Derived terms

• ναρθηκία (narthēkía)
• ναρθηκιάω (narthēkiáō)
• ναρθηκίζω (narthēkízō)
• ναρθήκινος (narthḗkinos)
• ναρθήκιον (narthḗkion)
• ναρθήκισμα (narthḗkisma)
• ναρθηκισμός (narthēkismós)
• ναρθηκοειδής (narthēkoeidḗs)
• ναρθηκοπλήρωτος (narthēkoplḗrōtos)
• ναρθηκοφανής (narthēkophanḗs)
• ναρθηκοφόρος (narthēkophóros)
• ναρθηκώδης (narthēkṓdēs)

 

Descendants

• Greek: νάρθηκας (nárthikas)
• → Aramaic:

  Jewish Literary Aramaic: נַרְתֵּקָא (nartēqā), נַרְתֵּיקָא (nartēqā)

  Classical Syriac: ܢܰܪܬܺܝܟܣ (nartiks), ܢܰܪܬܺܟܣ (nartiks), ܢܰܐܪܬܺܝܟܣ (nartiks), ܢܰܐܪܬܺܝܟܘܣ (nartikos)

• → Late Babylonian: 𒈾𒀾𒌇 (na-áš-tuq /⁠naštūq⁠/, “money pouch of leather”)
• → English: narthex
• → Hebrew: נַרְתִּיק (nartīq), נַרְתֵּיק (nartēq), נַרְתֵּק (nartēq)
• → Italian: nartece
• → Translingual: Narthex

Further reading

• “νάρθηξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “νάρθηξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• νάρθηξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • fennel idem, page 315.
• 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