φθινόπωρον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From φθῐ́ν(ω) (phthín(ō), “decay, to be reduced”) + ὀπώρ(α) f (opṓr(a), “last part of summer; fruit”) + -ον n (-on).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰtʰi.nó.pɔː.ron/ → /ɸθiˈno.po.ron/ → /fθiˈno.po.ron/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰtʰi.nó.pɔː.ron/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰtʰiˈno.po.ron/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸθiˈno.po.ron/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fθiˈno.po.ron/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fθiˈno.po.ron/

Noun

φθινόπωρον • (phthinópōron) n (genitive φθῐνοπώρου); second declension

1. autumn

   Synonyms: μετόπωρον (metópōron), μεθόπωρον (methópōron), φθῐνομετόπωρον (phthinometópōron)

   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.42
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.117
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.31.1
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.18.3
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.100.2

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ φθῐνόπωρον; τοῦ φθῐνοπώρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ φθῐνόπωρον tò phthinópōron	τὼ φθῐνοπώρω tṑ phthinopṓrō	τᾰ̀ φθῐνόπωρᾰ tà phthinópōra
Genitive	τοῦ φθῐνοπώρου toû phthinopṓrou	τοῖν φθῐνοπώροιν toîn phthinopṓroin	τῶν φθῐνοπώρων tôn phthinopṓrōn
Dative	τῷ φθῐνοπώρῳ tôi phthinopṓrōi	τοῖν φθῐνοπώροιν toîn phthinopṓroin	τοῖς φθῐνοπώροις toîs phthinopṓrois
Accusative	τὸ φθῐνόπωρον tò phthinópōron	τὼ φθῐνοπώρω tṑ phthinopṓrō	τᾰ̀ φθῐνόπωρᾰ tà phthinópōra
Vocative	φθῐνόπωρον phthinópōron	φθῐνοπώρω phthinopṓrō	φθῐνόπωρᾰ phthinópōra
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• φθινομετόπωρον (phthinometópōron)
• φθινοπωρικός (phthinopōrikós)
• φθινοπωρινός (phthinopōrinós)
• φθινοπωρίς (phthinopōrís)
• φθινοπωρισμός (phthinopōrismós)

 

Related terms

• see: φθίνω (phthínō) and ὀπώρα (opṓra)

Descendants

• → Greek: φθινόπωρο (fthinóporo) (learned)

Further reading

• “φθινόπωρον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “φθινόπωρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φθινόπωρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φθινόπωρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette