Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μαργαρίδης ‎(margarídēs) (Ionic)

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

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

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

Noun

μαργαρίτης • ‎(margarítēs) m ‎(genitive μαργαρίτου); first declension

1. pearl
2. a type of Egyptian plant

Inflection

Descendants

• French: marguerite
• Greek: μαργαρίτα ‎(margaríta)
• Hebrew: מַרְגָּלִית ‎(margalít)
• Italian: margherita
• Latin: margarita

References

• μαργαρίτης in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μαργαρίτης in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «μαργαρίτης» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G3135”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• 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