πρῖνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from a substrate root common to Proto-Slavic *brinъ (“larch”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /prîː.nos/ → /ˈpri.nos/ → /ˈpri.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /prîː.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpri.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpri.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpri.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpri.nos/

Noun

πρῖνος • (prînos) f (genitive πρῑ́νου); second declension

1. holm oak, ilex (Quercus ilex)
2. kermes oak (Quercus coccifera)

Declension

Second declension of ἡ πρῖνος; τῆς πρῑ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πρῖνος hē prînos	τὼ πρῑ́νω tṑ prī́nō	αἱ πρῖνοι hai prînoi
Genitive	τῆς πρῑ́νου tês prī́nou	τοῖν πρῑ́νοιν toîn prī́noin	τῶν πρῑ́νων tôn prī́nōn
Dative	τῇ πρῑ́νῳ têi prī́nōi	τοῖν πρῑ́νοιν toîn prī́noin	ταῖς πρῑ́νοις taîs prī́nois
Accusative	τὴν πρῖνον tḕn prînon	τὼ πρῑ́νω tṑ prī́nō	τᾱ̀ς πρῑ́νους tā̀s prī́nous
Vocative	πρῖνε prîne	πρῑ́νω prī́nō	πρῖνοι prînoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• θηλῠ́πρῑνος (thēlúprīnos)
• πρῑνεύς (prīneús)
• Πρῑνόεσσα (Prīnóessa)
• πρῑνώδης (prīnṓdēs)
• πρῑνῐ́δῐον (prīnídion)
• πρῑ́νῐνος (prī́ninos)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: prīnus

Further reading

• “πρῖνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πρῖνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πρῖνος 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
• “πρῖνος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011