μόρον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *mórom (“mulberry, blackberry”). Compare Middle Irish merenn (“mulberry”), Welsh merwydden, Old Armenian մոր (mor, “blackberry”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mó.ron/ → /ˈmo.ron/ → /ˈmo.ron/

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

Noun

μόρον • (móron) n (genitive μόρου); second declension

1. black mulberry
2. blackberry

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ μόρον; τοῦ μόρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ μόρον tò móron	τὼ μόρω tṑ mórō	τᾰ̀ μόρᾰ tà móra
Genitive	τοῦ μόρου toû mórou	τοῖν μόροιν toîn móroin	τῶν μόρων tôn mórōn
Dative	τῷ μόρῳ tôi mórōi	τοῖν μόροιν toîn móroin	τοῖς μόροις toîs mórois
Accusative	τὸ μόρον tò móron	τὼ μόρω tṑ mórō	τᾰ̀ μόρᾰ tà móra
Vocative	μόρον móron	μόρω mórō	μόρᾰ móra
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• μορέᾱ (moréā)
• μόρινος (mórinos)
• μορόεις (moróeis)

 

Descendants

• Greek: μούρο (moúro)
• → Latin: mōrum
• →? Turkish: mor (“purple”)

Further reading

• “μόρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μόρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• μόρον in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • mulberry idem, page 546.