πρέμνον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unexplained. Furnée assumes that is a variant of πρυμνός (prumnós, “hindmost, undermost”) and considers the word Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /prém.non/ → /ˈprem.non/ → /ˈprem.non/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /prém.non/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈprem.non/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈprem.non/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈprem.non/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈprem.non/

Noun

πρέμνον • (prémnon) n (genitive πρέμνου); second declension

1. (botany) bottom of the trunk of a tree, stump
2. (in general) stem, trunk, bole
3. enlarged bark of the stem of the olive
4. (architecture) base of a pillar

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ πρέμνον; τοῦ πρέμνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πρέμνον tò prémnon	τὼ πρέμνω tṑ prémnō	τᾰ̀ πρέμνᾰ tà prémna
Genitive	τοῦ πρέμνου toû prémnou	τοῖν πρέμνοιν toîn prémnoin	τῶν πρέμνων tôn prémnōn
Dative	τῷ πρέμνῳ tôi prémnōi	τοῖν πρέμνοιν toîn prémnoin	τοῖς πρέμνοις toîs prémnois
Accusative	τὸ πρέμνον tò prémnon	τὼ πρέμνω tṑ prémnō	τᾰ̀ πρέμνᾰ tà prémna
Vocative	πρέμνον prémnon	πρέμνω prémnō	πρέμνᾰ prémna
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• αὐτόπρεμνος (autópremnos)
• ἐκπρεμνίζω (ekpremnízō)
• πρέμνια (prémnia)
• πρεμνιάζω (premniázō)
• πρεμνίζω (premnízō)
• πρέμνιον (prémnion)
• πρέμνοθεν (prémnothen)
• πρεμνώδης (premnṓdēs)

 

Further reading

• “πρέμνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πρέμνον 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