κιτρέα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κίτρον (kítron, “fruit of the citron tree”) +‎ -έᾱ (-éā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ciˈtre.a/ → /ciˈtre.a/

• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ciˈtre.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ciˈtre.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈtre.a/

Noun

κῐτρέᾱ • (kitréā) f (genitive κῐτρέᾱς); first declension

1. citron tree
   • Geoponica 10.7.8:

     Κίτρια δὲ εἰ βούλει μέλανα ποιῆσαι, μηλέας κλάδον τῇ κιτρέᾳ ἐγκέντριζε, καὶ ἀνάπαλιν.

     Kítria dè ei boúlei mélana poiêsai, mēléas kládon têi kitréāi enkéntrize, kaì anápalin.

     If you want to make dark citrons, graft a branch of an apple tree onto the citron tree, and vice versa.

Inflection

First declension of ἡ κῐτρέᾱ; τῆς κῐτρέᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κῐτρέᾱ hē kitréā	τὼ κῐτρέᾱ tṑ kitréā	αἱ κῐτρέαι hai kitréai
Genitive	τῆς κῐτρέᾱς tês kitréās	τοῖν κῐτρέαιν toîn kitréain	τῶν κῐτρεῶν tôn kitreôn
Dative	τῇ κῐτρέᾳ têi kitréāi	τοῖν κῐτρέαιν toîn kitréain	ταῖς κῐτρέαις taîs kitréais
Accusative	τὴν κῐτρέᾱν tḕn kitréān	τὼ κῐτρέᾱ tṑ kitréā	τᾱ̀ς κῐτρέᾱς tā̀s kitréās
Vocative	κῐτρέᾱ kitréā	κῐτρέᾱ kitréā	κῐτρέαι kitréai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “κιτρέα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κιτρέα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κιτρέα - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.