πύραυνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) +‎ αὔω (aúō, “to light a fire”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pý.rau̯.nos/ → /ˈpy.ra.βnos/ → /ˈpi.ra.vnos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pý.rau̯.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpy.raw.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpy.ra.βnos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpy.ra.vnos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ra.vnos/

Noun

πῠ́ραυνος • (púraunos) m (genitive πῠραύνου); second declension

1. pan of coals

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πῠ́ραυνος; τοῦ πῠραύνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πῠ́ραυνος ho púraunos	τὼ πῠραύνω tṑ puraúnō	οἱ πῠ́ραυνοι hoi púraunoi
Genitive	τοῦ πῠραύνου toû puraúnou	τοῖν πῠραύνοιν toîn puraúnoin	τῶν πῠραύνων tôn puraúnōn
Dative	τῷ πῠραύνῳ tôi puraúnōi	τοῖν πῠραύνοιν toîn puraúnoin	τοῖς πῠραύνοις toîs puraúnois
Accusative	τὸν πῠ́ραυνον tòn púraunon	τὼ πῠραύνω tṑ puraúnō	τοὺς πῠραύνους toùs puraúnous
Vocative	πῠ́ραυνε púraune	πῠραύνω puraúnō	πῠ́ραυνοι púraunoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “πύραυνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πύραυνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• πύραυνος - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.