ξυρόν

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ksu-ró-s (“razor”), from *ksew- (“to scrape, sharpen, shave”). Exact cognate with Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšurás (“dagger, razor”); see also the verbal formation from the same root ξύω (xúō, “to scrape”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ksy.rón/ → /ksyˈron/ → /ksiˈron/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ksy.rón/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ksyˈron/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ksyˈron/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ksyˈron/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ksiˈron/

Noun

ξῠρόν • (xurón) n (genitive ξῠροῦ); second declension

1. razor

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ξῠρόν; τοῦ ξῠροῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ξῠρόν tò xurón	τὼ ξῠρώ tṑ xurṓ	τᾰ̀ ξῠρᾰ́ tà xurá
Genitive	τοῦ ξῠροῦ toû xuroû	τοῖν ξῠροῖν toîn xuroîn	τῶν ξῠρῶν tôn xurôn
Dative	τῷ ξῠρῷ tôi xurôi	τοῖν ξῠροῖν toîn xuroîn	τοῖς ξῠροῖς toîs xuroîs
Accusative	τὸ ξῠρόν tò xurón	τὼ ξῠρώ tṑ xurṓ	τᾰ̀ ξῠρᾰ́ tà xurá
Vocative	ξῠρόν xurón	ξῠρώ xurṓ	ξῠρᾰ́ xurá
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ξυράφιον (xuráphion)
• ξυροδόκη (xurodókē)
• ξυροθήκη (xurothḗkē)

 

• ἐπὶ ξυροῦ ἵσταται ἀκμῆς ... ὄλεθρος ἠὲ βιῶναι (epì xuroû hístatai akmês ... ólethros ēè biônai, “death or life stands on a razor's edge”)

Further reading

• “ξυρόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ξυρόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ξυρόν”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ξυρόν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ξυρόν in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ξυρόν”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011