μόλουρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

No etymology. Given the ending, perhaps it is from Pre-Greek; compare ἴνδουρος (índouros), παλίουρος (palíouros), σκίουρος (skíouros) and τάγχουρος (tánkhouros).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mó.luː.ros/ → /ˈmo.lu.ros/ → /ˈmo.lu.ros/

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

Noun

μόλουρος • (mólouros) m (genitive μολούρου); second declension

1. kind of serpent

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ μόλουρος; τοῦ μολούρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μόλουρος ho mólouros	τὼ μολούρω tṑ moloúrō	οἱ μόλουροι hoi mólouroi
Genitive	τοῦ μολούρου toû moloúrou	τοῖν μολούροιν toîn moloúroin	τῶν μολούρων tôn moloúrōn
Dative	τῷ μολούρῳ tôi moloúrōi	τοῖν μολούροιν toîn moloúroin	τοῖς μολούροις toîs moloúrois
Accusative	τὸν μόλουρον tòn mólouron	τὼ μολούρω tṑ moloúrō	τοὺς μολούρους toùs moloúrous
Vocative	μόλουρε móloure	μολούρω moloúrō	μόλουροι mólouroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “μόλουρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μόλουρος 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