νεβρός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Some have tried a connection with Old Armenian ներկ (nerk, “color”), deriving both from a Proto-Indo-European root *(s)negʷro-, because often the deer and the hind are called after their variegated color (compare πρόξ (próx, “roe deer”) and περκνός (perknós, “dusky”)). Others derive it from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (“naked”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ne.brós/ → /neˈβros/ → /neˈvros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ne.brós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /neˈbros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /neˈβros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /neˈvros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /neˈvros/

Noun

νεβρός • (nebrós) m (genitive νεβροῦ); second declension

1. fawn, young deer
2. type of cowardice

Declension

Second declension of ὁ νεβρός; τοῦ νεβροῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ νεβρός ho nebrós	τὼ νεβρώ tṑ nebrṓ	οἱ νεβροί hoi nebroí
Genitive	τοῦ νεβροῦ toû nebroû	τοῖν νεβροῖν toîn nebroîn	τῶν νεβρῶν tôn nebrôn
Dative	τῷ νεβρῷ tôi nebrôi	τοῖν νεβροῖν toîn nebroîn	τοῖς νεβροῖς toîs nebroîs
Accusative	τὸν νεβρόν tòn nebrón	τὼ νεβρώ tṑ nebrṓ	τοὺς νεβρούς toùs nebroús
Vocative	νεβρέ nebré	νεβρώ nebrṓ	νεβροί nebroí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• νέβρειος (nébreios)
• νεβρίδιον (nebrídion)
• νεβρίζω (nebrízō)
• νέβρινος (nébrinos)
• νεβρίς (nebrís)
• νεβρώδης (nebrṓdēs)

 

See also

• ἔλαφος (élaphos, “deer”)
• ἐλλός (ellós, “fawn”)
• κεμάς (kemás, “two-year old deer”)
• πρόξ (próx, “roe deer”)

Further reading

• “νεβρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “νεβρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• νεβρός 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