Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /métaxsa/

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

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

Noun

μέταξα • ‎(métaxa) f ‎(genitive μετάξης); first declension

1. raw silk

Inflection

Descendants

• Arabic: مِدَقْس ‎(midaqs)
• Aramaic:
  • Classical Syriac: ܡܝܛܟܣܐ ‎(mīṭakkəsāʾ)
• Latin: mataxa
• Old Armenian: մետաքս ‎(metakʿs)

References

• μέταξα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «μέταξα» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette