γλαυκός

See also: Γλαῦκος

Ancient Greek

Grey olive leaves

Etymology

Uncertain origin. Barber reconstructs Proto-Indo-European *gleh₂w-ko-, noting that the root only appears in Greek (Homer, Aeschylus), but Beekes finds an Indo-European origin unlikely.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɡlau̯.kós/ → /ɣlaβˈkos/ → /ɣlavˈkos/

• (5^th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /ɡlau̯.kós/
• (1^st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ɡlawˈkos/
• (4^th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ɣlaβˈkos/
• (10^th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ɣlavˈkos/
• (15^th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ɣlavˈkos/

Adjective

γλαυκός • (glaukós) m (feminine γλαυκή, neuter γλαυκόν); first/second declension

1. gleaming, bright
2. blue-green or gray
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 700–701

     Χορός   ... ὃ τᾷδε θάλλει μέγιστα χώρᾳ,
     γλαυκᾶς παιδοτρόφου φύλλον ἐλαίας

     Khorós   ... hò tâide thállei mégista khṓrāi,
     glaukâs paidotróphou phúllon elaías

     Chorus: [a plant] that flourishes greatly in this land,
     the leaf of the child-nourishing gray olive tree

3. (of an eye color) light blue or gray

Inflection

Declension of γλαυκός; γλαυκή; γλαυκόν

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		γλαυκός	γλαυκή	γλαυκόν		γλαυκώ	γλαυκᾱ́	γλαυκώ		γλαυκοί	γλαυκαί	γλαυκᾰ́
Genitive		γλαυκοῦ	γλαυκῆς	γλαυκοῦ		γλαυκοῖν	γλαυκαῖν	γλαυκοῖν		γλαυκῶν	γλαυκῶν	γλαυκῶν
Dative		γλαυκῷ	γλαυκῇ	γλαυκῷ		γλαυκοῖν	γλαυκαῖν	γλαυκοῖν		γλαυκοῖς	γλαυκαῖς	γλαυκοῖς
Accusative		γλαυκόν	γλαυκήν	γλαυκόν		γλαυκώ	γλαυκᾱ́	γλαυκώ		γλαυκούς	γλαυκᾱ́ς	γλαυκᾰ́
Vocative		γλαυκέ	γλαυκή	γλαυκόν		γλαυκώ	γλαυκᾱ́	γλαυκώ		γλαυκοί	γλαυκαί	γλαυκᾰ́
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		γλαυκῶς				γλαυκότερος				γλαυκότᾰτος
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Γλαῦκος (Glaûkos)

Descendants

• Latin: glaucus
  • English: glaucous
• Greek: γλαύκωμα (gláfkoma)
• English: glaucoma

Antonyms

• (eye color): αἰγωπός (aigōpós), μέλας (mélas), χαροπός (kharopós)

References

• γλαυκός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• γλαυκός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• γλαυκός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «γλαυκός» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «γλαυκός» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «γλαυκός» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2017)
• γλαυκός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • blue idem, page 85.
  • gray idem, page 371.