ματτύη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μᾰττῠ́ᾱ (mattúā), μᾰττῠ́ης (mattúēs)

Etymology

Originally analyzed as a derivative of μάσσω (mássō, “to knead”), but according to Beekes the α- vocalism in the root and the presence of a double -ττ- rather point to a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mat.tý.ɛː/ → /matˈty.i/ → /maˈti.i/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mat.tý.ɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /matˈty.e̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /matˈty.i/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /matˈty.i/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /maˈti.i/

Noun

μᾰττῠ́η • (mattúē) f (genitive μᾰττῠ́ης); first declension

1. Macedonian or Thessalian dish made of hashed meat, poultry and herbs, and served cold as a dessert

Inflection

First declension of ἡ μᾰττῠ́η; τῆς μᾰττῠ́ης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μᾰττῠ́η hē mattúē	τὼ μᾰττῠ́ᾱ tṑ mattúā	αἱ μᾰττῠ́αι hai mattúai
Genitive	τῆς μᾰττῠ́ης tês mattúēs	τοῖν μᾰττῠ́αιν toîn mattúain	τῶν μᾰττῠῶν tôn mattuôn
Dative	τῇ μᾰττῠ́ῃ têi mattúēi	τοῖν μᾰττῠ́αιν toîn mattúain	ταῖς μᾰττῠ́αις taîs mattúais
Accusative	τὴν μᾰττῠ́ην tḕn mattúēn	τὼ μᾰττῠ́ᾱ tṑ mattúā	τᾱ̀ς μᾰττῠ́ᾱς tā̀s mattúās
Vocative	μᾰττῠ́η mattúē	μᾰττῠ́ᾱ mattúā	μᾰττῠ́αι mattúai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ματτυάζω (mattuázō)
• ματτυοκόπης (mattuokópēs)
• ματτυολοιχός (mattuoloikhós)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: mattea

Further reading

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