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ἀρσενικόν
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Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ar.se.ni.kón/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ar.se.niˈkon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ar.se.niˈkon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ar.se.niˈkon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ar.se.niˈkon/
Etymology 1
Of Semitic origin (compare Classical Syriac ܙܪܢܝܟܐ (zarnīḵā, “orpiment”)) under the strong influence of ἀρσενικός (arsenikós, “male, virile”), from Middle Persian *zarnīk, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“yellow”). See arsenic for more cognates.
Alternative forms
- ἀρσενίκιον n (arseníkion), ἀρρενική f (arrhenikḗ)
Noun
ἀρσενῐκόν • (arsenĭkón) f (genitive ἀρσενῐκοῦ); first declension
- (mineralogy) orpiment, yellow sulfide of arsenic
- arsenic (chemical element 33) (later meaning, not attested up to the 5th c. CE)
Usage notes
Only the meaning "orpiment, arsenic sulfide" is attested in classical sources; the later shift to "arsenic metal" is found in the period of late Koine Greek to early Byzantine Greek, when σανδαράχη (sandaráchi, “realgar (initially)”) begins referring to both realgar and orpiment (red and yellow arsenic sulfides).
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἀρσενικόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- 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
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
ἀρσενῐκόν • (arsenĭkón)
- inflection of ἀρσενικός (arsenikós):
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