δάκρυον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Back-formation from δάκρυα (dákrua), originally the plural of δάκρυ (dákru).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /dá.kry.on/ → /ˈða.kry.on/ → /ˈða.kri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /dá.kry.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈda.kry.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈða.kry.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈða.kry.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈða.kri.on/

Noun

δᾰ́κρῠον • (dákruon) n (genitive δᾰκρῠ́ου); second declension

1. Alternative form of δᾰ́κρῠ (dákru, “tear”)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ δᾰ́κρῠον; τοῦ δᾰκρῠ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ δᾰ́κρῠον tò dákruon	τὼ δᾰκρῠ́ω tṑ dakrúō	τᾰ̀ δᾰ́κρῠᾰ tà dákrua
Genitive	τοῦ δᾰκρῠ́ου toû dakrúou	τοῖν δᾰκρῠ́οιν toîn dakrúoin	τῶν δᾰκρῠ́ων tôn dakrúōn
Dative	τῷ δᾰκρῠ́ῳ tôi dakrúōi	τοῖν δᾰκρῠ́οιν toîn dakrúoin	τοῖς δᾰκρῠ́οις toîs dakrúois
Accusative	τὸ δᾰ́κρῠον tò dákruon	τὼ δᾰκρῠ́ω tṑ dakrúō	τᾰ̀ δᾰ́κρῠᾰ tà dákrua
Vocative	δᾰ́κρῠον dákruon	δᾰκρῠ́ω dakrúō	δᾰ́κρῠᾰ dákrua
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “δάκρυον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “δάκρυον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “δάκρυον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• δάκρυον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• δάκρυον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• δάκρυον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “δάκρυον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G1144 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • tear idem, page 859.