φιτρός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Explained by Beekes as an instrument noun from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂- (“to strike, hew”) and cognate with Proto-Celtic *binati (“to hit”) and Latin perfines.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰi.trós/ → /ɸiˈtros/ → /fiˈtros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰi.trós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰiˈtros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸiˈtros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fiˈtros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fiˈtros/

Noun

φιτρός • (phitrós) m (genitive φιτροῦ); second declension

1. block of wood, log
2. bole or trunk of a tree
3. firebrand

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ φιτρός; τοῦ φιτροῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ φιτρός ho phitrós	τὼ φιτρώ tṑ phitrṓ	οἱ φιτροί hoi phitroí
Genitive	τοῦ φιτροῦ toû phitroû	τοῖν φιτροῖν toîn phitroîn	τῶν φιτρῶν tôn phitrôn
Dative	τῷ φιτρῷ tôi phitrôi	τοῖν φιτροῖν toîn phitroîn	τοῖς φιτροῖς toîs phitroîs
Accusative	τὸν φιτρόν tòn phitrón	τὼ φιτρώ tṑ phitrṓ	τοὺς φιτρούς toùs phitroús
Vocative	φιτρέ phitré	φιτρώ phitrṓ	φιτροί phitroí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “φιτρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• φιτρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “φιτρός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1574