παλίουρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

A connection with οὐρά (ourá, “tail”) makes little sense, nor it is to be taken with οὖρον (oûron, “urine”). The word is most probably Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pa.lí.uː.ros/ → /paˈli.u.ros/ → /paˈli.u.ros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pa.lí.uː.ros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /paˈli.u.ros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /paˈli.u.ros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /paˈli.u.ros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /paˈli.u.ros/

Noun

πᾰλίουρος • (palíouros) m or f (genitive πᾰλῐούρου); second declension

1. Christ's thorn (Paliurus spina-christi)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ, ἡ πᾰλῐ́ουρος; τοῦ, τῆς πᾰλῐούρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ πᾰλῐ́ουρος ho, hē palíouros	τὼ πᾰλῐούρω tṑ palioúrō	οἱ, αἱ πᾰλῐ́ουροι hoi, hai palíouroi
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς πᾰλῐούρου toû, tês palioúrou	τοῖν πᾰλῐούροιν toîn palioúroin	τῶν πᾰλῐούρων tôn palioúrōn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ πᾰλῐούρῳ tôi, têi palioúrōi	τοῖν πᾰλῐούροιν toîn palioúroin	τοῖς, ταῖς πᾰλῐούροις toîs, taîs palioúrois
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν πᾰλῐ́ουρον tòn, tḕn palíouron	τὼ πᾰλῐούρω tṑ palioúrō	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς πᾰλῐούρους toùs, tā̀s palioúrous
Vocative	πᾰλῐ́ουρε palíoure	πᾰλῐούρω palioúrō	πᾰλῐ́ουροι palíouroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πᾰλῐουρίς (paliourís)
• πᾰλῐουροφόρος (paliourophóros)
• πᾰλῐούρῐνος (palioúrinos)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: paliūrus
  • → Translingual: Paliurus

Further reading

• “παλίουρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• παλίουρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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, →ISBN