πέτευρον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πέντευρον (pénteuron), πέταυρον (pétauron)

Etymology

Traditionally derived from πετάννυμι (petánnumi, “to spread out, open”). According to Beekes, the word could be of Pre-Greek origin, given the variation αυ-/ευ- and the prenasalization.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pé.teu̯.ron/ → /ˈpe.te.βron/ → /ˈpe.te.vron/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pé.teu̯.ron/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.tew.ron/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.te.βron/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.te.vron/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.te.vron/

Noun

πέτευρον • (péteuron) n (genitive πετεύρου); second declension

1. roosting perch for fowls
2. (in general) pole, spar, plank
3. springboard used by tumblers and acrobats
4. platform, stage
5. springe, trap
6. public notice board

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ πέτευρον; τοῦ πετεύρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πέτευρον tò péteuron	τὼ πετεύρω tṑ peteúrō	τᾰ̀ πέτευρᾰ tà péteura
Genitive	τοῦ πετεύρου toû peteúrou	τοῖν πετεύροιν toîn peteúroin	τῶν πετεύρων tôn peteúrōn
Dative	τῷ πετεύρῳ tôi peteúrōi	τοῖν πετεύροιν toîn peteúroin	τοῖς πετεύροις toîs peteúrois
Accusative	τὸ πέτευρον tò péteuron	τὼ πετεύρω tṑ peteúrō	τᾰ̀ πέτευρᾰ tà péteura
Vocative	πέτευρον péteuron	πετεύρω peteúrō	πέτευρᾰ péteura
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πετευρίζομαι (peteurízomai)
• πετεύριον (peteúrion)
• πετευρισμός (peteurismós)
• πετευριστέω (peteuristéō)
• πετευριστήρ (peteuristḗr)
• πετευριστής (peteuristḗs)

 

Further reading

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