Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /óstrakon/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /óstrakon/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /óstɾakon/

Noun

ὄστρακον • ‎(óstrakon) n ‎(genitive ὀστράκου); second declension

1. earthen vessel
   1. fragment of such a vessel, potsherd
   2. earthen castanet
2. the hard shell of animals such as mollusks and turtles
   1. mother of pearl
   2. eggshell

Inflection

References

• ὄστρακον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὄστρακον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ὄστρακον» 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.
  • potsherd idem, page 629.
  • shell idem, page 764.
  • sherd idem, page 765.
• 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