ὄστρεον

English (LSJ)

or ὄστρειον, τό,
A oyster; the proper Att. form is ὄστρειον (ὄστρεια . . ἔλεγον οἱ ἀρχαῖοι Ath.3.92e, cf. Moer.p.285 P. (who recommends ὀστρία [ῑ] wrongly), Phot., etc.), and this is required by the metre in the earlier Poets, κόγχοι, μύες, κὤστρεια A.Fr.34; ὄστρεια συμμεμυκότα Epich.42 (ὄστρεα codd. Ath.); πίννῃσι καὶ ὀστρείοισιν ὁμοίη Cratin.8; πίνναι, λεπάδες, μύες, ὄστρεια Anaxandr.41.61 (anap.); while ὄστρεον is used in late Ep., Matro Conv.16, Nic.Fr.83, and is found in Pap., PCair.Zen.82.13 (iii B. C.), POxy.738.5 (i A. D.):—the readings vary in Pl. (v. infr. III), as in Arist., cf. HA490b10, 525a20: generally, of all bivalves, ib.525a20, 528a1, Fr.304, Gal.12.345.
II oyster-shell or bivalve-shell, Arist.HA531b5, 590a32.
III purple pigment, prob. that produced by the murex, cf. Arist.HA548a12; ὄστρεον μόνον ἐπιφέρειν Pl.Cra.424d; ὀστρείῳ ἐναληλιμμένος Id.R.420c; τὰ σώματα ἐκέχριντο ὀστρείῳ Callix.2: ὄστρεα· τὰ κογχύλια, Αάκωνες ἄνθος, Hsch.

German (Pape)

[Seite 401] τό, = ὄστρειον, Auster, Muschel; Plat. Tim. 92; ὄστρεά (Ath. las ὄστρεια) τε καὶ φύκια καὶ πέτρας, Rep. X, 611 d; oft bei Ath. aus Comic. – Purpurfarbe, Plat. Crat. 424 d, wahrscheinlich eine Art Lackfarbe.

French (Bailly abrégé)

ου (τό) :
huître, en gén. coquillage bivalve.
Étymologie: cf. lat. ostrea.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

ὄστρεον: Plat. etc. τό = ὄστρειον.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

ὄστρεον: ἢ ὄστρειον, τό· (ἴδε ἐν λ. ὀστέον)· - ὀστρείδιον, κοινῶς «ὀστρεῖδι», Λατιν. ostrea: - ὁ κυρίως Ἀττικ. τύπος εἶναι ὄστρειον (ὄστρεια.. ἔλεγον οἱ ἀρχαῖοι Ἀθήν. 92F, πρβλ. Μοῖριν 185, Φώτ., κλ.), καὶ τοῦτον ἀπαιτεῖ τὸ μέτρον ἐν τοῖς παλαιοτέροις τῶν ποιητῶν, κόγχοι, μύες, κὤστρεια Αἰσχύλ. Ἀποσπ. 25· ὄστρεια συμμεμυκότα Ἐπίχ. 23 Ahr.· πίννῃσι καὶ ὀστρείοισιν ὁμοίη Κρατῖνος ἐν «Ἀρχιλόχοις» 5· πίνναι, λεπάδες, μύες, ὄστρεια Ἀνσξανδρίδ. ἐν «Πρωτεσιλάῳ» 1. 60, κτλ. (ἴδε Κωμ. Ἀποσπ. ἐν τῷ Πίνακι)· ἐνῷ ὁ τύπος ὄστρεον εἶναι ἐν χρήσει παρὰ μεταγεν. Ἐπικ., Νικ. παρ’ Ἀθην. 92D, Μάτρων παρὰ τῷ αὐτῷ 135Α· - παρὰ Πλάτωνι αἱ γραφαὶ ποικίλλουσι (ἴδε κατωτ. ΙΙ) ὡς παρ’ Ἀριστ., πρβλ. π. τὰ Ζ. Ἱστ. 1. 6, 2 καὶ 4. 1, 28· - ὁ Ἀριστ. φαίνεται ὅτι χρῆται τῇ λέξει ἐπὶ παντὸς διθύρου ὀστρακοδέρμου καθόλου, π. τὰ Ζ. Ἱστ. ἔνθ’ ἀνωτ., παρ’ Ἀθην. 88Β, Γαλην. 12. 543. ΙΙ. ἐπὶ τῆς ἀκαλήφης ἥτις «ζῇ ἀπὸ τῆς πέτρας ὥσπερ ἀπ’ ὀστρέου» Ἀριστ. π. τὰ Ζ. Ἱστ. 4. 6, 7., 8. 2, 16. ΙΙΙ. = τῷ Λατ. ostrum, χρῶμα πορφυροῦν χρήσιμον πρὸς βαφήν, πιθαν. τὸ ἐκ τῆς πορφύρας (murex) παραγόμενον, ὄστρεον μόνον ἐπιφέρειν Πλάτ. Κρατ. 424D· ὀστρείῳ ἐναληλιμμένος ὁ αὐτ. ἐν Πολ. 420C· τὰ σώματα ἐκέχριντο ὀστρείῳ Ἀθήν. 197F, πρβλ. Ἀριστ. π. τὰ Ζ. Ἱστ. 5. 15, 21.

Greek Monotonic

ὄστρεον: Αττ. ὄστρειον, τό, στρείδι, Λατ. ostrea, σε Αισχύλ., Πλάτ.

Middle Liddell

ὄστρεον, αττιξ ὄστρειον, ου, τό,
an oyster, Lat. ostrea, Aesch., Plat.

Mantoulidis Etymological

(=στρείδι). Συγγενεύει μέ τά: ὀστοῦν, ὄστρακον.

Translations

oyster

Abenaki: als; Afrikaans: oester; Albanian: stridhe; Arabic: مَحَار‎; Gulf Arabic: محار‎; Hijazi Arabic: مَحَار‎; Egyptian Arabic: إسترديا‎; Armenian: ոստրե; Azerbaijani: istridyə; Basque: ostra; Belarusian: вустрыца; Bengali: ঝিনুক; Breton: istr; Bulgarian: стрида; Burmese: ကမာ; Catalan: ostra; Central Melanau: tirem; Chinese Cantonese: 蠔, 蚝; Mandarin: 牡蠣, 牡蛎, 海蠣子, 海蛎子, 蠔子, 蚝子, 蠔, 蚝; Cornish: estren; Corsican: ostrica, ostrice; Czech: ústřice; Danish: østers; Dutch: oester; Esperanto: ostro; Estonian: auster; Faroese: ostra; Finnish: osteri; French: huître, huitre; Georgian: ხამანწკა; German: Auster; Greek: στρείδι; Ancient Greek: ὄστρεον, τῆθος, γλυκομαρίς; Hawaiian: kio; Hebrew: צִדפָּה‎; Hindi: सीप, शुक्ति; Hungarian: osztriga; Icelandic: ostra; Ido: ostro; Indonesian: tiram; Irish: oisre; Italian: ostrica; Japanese: 牡蠣, カキ, 真珠貝; Javanese: kerang; Kazakh: устрица; Khmer: ខ្យងស្មិត, ងាវ, ងាវសមុទ្រ; Kimaragang: kubili; Korean: 굴; Kyrgyz: устрица; Lao: ຫອຍນາງລົມ, ຫອຽນາງລົມ; Latin: ostrea; Latvian: austere; Lithuanian: austrė; Luxembourgish: Auster; Macedonian: острига; Malagasy: masajy; Malay: tiram; Malayalam: മുത്തുച്ചിപ്പി; Manx: ooastyr; Maori: tio; Mi'kmaq: mntmu anim, tmtmu anim; Mohegan-Pequot: apon; Mongolian: хясаа; Murik: kabaŋk; Navajo: chʼosh yoołgai bitsʼaʼígíí, chʼosh yoołgai bitsʼaʼí íiyisígíí; Norman: hitre; North Frisian: Skruk; Northern Norwegian Bokmål: østers; Nynorsk: østers; Occitan: ustra; Old English: ostre; Persian: گوشماهی‎, شسن‎, صدف چروک‎; Polish: ostryga; Portuguese: ostra; Romanian: stridie; Russian: устрица; Scottish Gaelic: eisir, oisir; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: каменица, оштрига; Roman: kamenica, oštriga; Sinhalese: බෙල්ලා; Slovak: ustrica; Slovene: ostriga; Spanish: ostra; Swedish: ostron; Tagalog: talaba; Tajik: гӯшмоҳӣ; Thai: หอยนางรม, มุก; Turkish: istiridye; Turkmen: ustrisa; Ukrainian: устриця; Unami: sisawin; Urdu: شکتی‎; Uzbek: ustritsa; Vietnamese: hàu; Volapük: hüit; Walloon: plate mosse; Welsh: llymarch, wystrysen; West Coast Bajau: tigom; West Yiddish: אויסטער‎; Zulu: ukhwathu