γάρος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• γάρον (gáron)

Etymology

Unknown, possibly the name of a fish or a different sauce.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɡá.ros/ → /ˈɣa.ros/ → /ˈɣa.ros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɡá.ros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.ros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɣa.ros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈɣa.ros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈɣa.ros/

Noun

γάρος • (gáros) m (genitive γάρου); second declension

1. A kind of sauce or paste made of brine and small fish, garum

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ γᾰ́ρος; τοῦ γᾰ́ρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ γᾰ́ρος ho gáros	τὼ γᾰ́ρω tṑ gárō	οἱ γᾰ́ροι hoi gároi
Genitive	τοῦ γᾰ́ρου toû gárou	τοῖν γᾰ́ροιν toîn gároin	τῶν γᾰ́ρων tôn gárōn
Dative	τῷ γᾰ́ρῳ tôi gárōi	τοῖν γᾰ́ροιν toîn gároin	τοῖς γᾰ́ροις toîs gárois
Accusative	τὸν γᾰ́ρον tòn gáron	τὼ γᾰ́ρω tṑ gárō	τοὺς γᾰ́ρους toùs gárous
Vocative	γᾰ́ρε gáre	γᾰ́ρω gárō	γᾰ́ροι gároi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• γαράριον (garárion)
• γαρηρόν (garērón)
• γαρῖνος (garînos)
• γαρίσκος (garískos)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: garum

Further reading

• “γάρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• γάρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• γάρος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
• Smith, Andrew F. (1998). "From Garum to Ketchup. A Spicy Tale of Two Fish Sauces". In Walker, Harlan (ed.). Fish: Food from the Waters. Oxford Symposium. pp. 299–306. →ISBN.