λάρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably of onomatopoeic origin but confront Armenian լոր (lor, “quail”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lá.ros/ → /ˈla.ros/ → /ˈla.ros/

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

Noun

λάρος • (láros) m (genitive λάρου); second declension

1. A ravenous sea bird, perhaps the seamew, the gull
2. A greedy demagogue

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ λᾰ́ρος; τοῦ λᾰ́ρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ λᾰ́ρος ho láros	τὼ λᾰ́ρω tṑ lárō	οἱ λᾰ́ροι hoi lároi
Genitive	τοῦ λᾰ́ρου toû lárou	τοῖν λᾰ́ροιν toîn lároin	τῶν λᾰ́ρων tôn lárōn
Dative	τῷ λᾰ́ρῳ tôi lárōi	τοῖν λᾰ́ροιν toîn lároin	τοῖς λᾰ́ροις toîs lárois
Accusative	τὸν λᾰ́ρον tòn láron	τὼ λᾰ́ρω tṑ lárō	τοὺς λᾰ́ρους toùs lárous
Vocative	λᾰ́ρε láre	λᾰ́ρω lárō	λᾰ́ροι lároi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: larus
  • → Translingual: Larus

Further reading

• “λάρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• λάρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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