φώρ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *pʰṓr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰṓr, from the root *bʰer- (“to carry”) (see φέρω (phérō)). Cognate with Latin fūr.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰɔ̌ːr/ → /ɸor/ → /for/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰɔ̌ːr/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰor/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸor/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /for/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /for/

Noun

φώρ • (phṓr) m (genitive φωρός); third declension

1. a thief

   Synonym: κλέπτης (kléptēs)

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ φώρ; τοῦ φωρός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ φώρ ho phṓr	τὼ φῶρε tṑ phôre	οἱ φῶρες hoi phôres
Genitive	τοῦ φωρός toû phōrós	τοῖν φωροῖν toîn phōroîn	τῶν φωρῶν tôn phōrôn
Dative	τῷ φωρῐ́ tôi phōrí	τοῖν φωροῖν toîn phōroîn	τοῖς φωρσῐ́ / φωρσῐ́ν toîs phōrsí(n)
Accusative	τὸν φῶρᾰ tòn phôra	τὼ φῶρε tṑ phôre	τοὺς φῶρᾰς toùs phôras
Vocative	φώρ phṓr	φῶρε phôre	φῶρες phôres
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• φώριος (phṓrios)

References

• “φώρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φώρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φώρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • thief idem, page 866.