ἀνήρ

Ancient Greek

Ἁνὴρ καλέεται Σωκράτης.

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr. Cognates include Sanskrit नर (nára) and Old Irish nert.

Pronunciation

• (5th BC Attic): IPA: /anɛ͜ɛ́r/

• (1st BC Egyptian): IPA: /anéːr/

• (4th AD Koine): IPA: /anír/

• (10th AD Byzantine): IPA: /anír/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan): IPA: /aníɾ/

Noun

ἀνήρ (genitive ἀνδρός) m, third declension; (anēr)

1. man (adult male)
2. husband

Usage notes

The word ἀνήρ may form a crasis with the definite article, resulting in ὁ and ἀνήρ merging. The Attic crasis is ἁνήρ and the Ionic crasis is ὡνήρ.

Inflection

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἀνήρ	τὼ ἄνδρε	οἱ ἄνδρες
Genitive	τοῦ ἀνδρός	τοῖν ἀνδροῖν	τῶν ἀνδρῶν
Dative	τῷ ἀνδρί	τοῖν ἀνδροῖν	τοῖς ἀνδράσι(ν)
Accusative	τὸν ἄνδρα	τὼ ἄνδρε	τοὺς ἄνδρας
Vocative	ἄνερ	ἄνδρε	ἄνδρες

References

• LSJ
• Bauer lexicon
• Strong’s concordance number: G120