Uncertain;Strong's Concordance calls it a "primitive word". Possibly from a Mediterraneansubstrate; compareOld Armenianանթայր(antʻayr,“spark; anthrax”),անթեղ(antʻeł,“hot coal, ember”).
Others have connected the word toOld Norsesintr,GermanSinter(“sinter”),Old Englishsinder(“cinder, ashes, slag”), all from*sindrą(“dross, cinder, slag”), and viaProto-Indo-European*sendʰro-(“coagulating fluid, scale, cinder”) cognate toOld Church Slavonicсядра(sjadra,“lime cinder, gypsum”) (compareSerbo-Croatiansadra,Czechsádra). Kölligan suggests a connection toSanskritअन्ध(andha,“blind, darkness, etc.”).
ἄνθραξ• (ánthrax) m (genitiveἄνθρακος);third declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁἄνθρᾰξ ho ánthrăx | τὼἄνθρᾰκε tṑ ánthrăke | οἱἄνθρᾰκες hoi ánthrăkes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦἄνθρᾰκος toû ánthrăkos | τοῖνἀνθρᾰ́κοιν toîn anthrắkoin | τῶνἀνθρᾰ́κων tôn anthrắkōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷἄνθρᾰκῐ tôi ánthrăkĭ | τοῖνἀνθρᾰ́κοιν toîn anthrắkoin | τοῖςἄνθρᾰξῐ /ἄνθρᾰξῐν toîs ánthrăxĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸνἄνθρᾰκᾰ tòn ánthrăkă | τὼἄνθρᾰκε tṑ ánthrăke | τοὺςἄνθρᾰκᾰς toùs ánthrăkăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἄνθρᾰξ ánthrăx | ἄνθρᾰκε ánthrăke | ἄνθρᾰκες ánthrăkes | ||||||||||
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