κιτρέα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(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

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

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

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.

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