πράσον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Traditionally connected with Latin porrum (“leek”) and Albanian presh, derived from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥so- (“leek”). But Beekes does not rule out a Lua error in Module:parameters at line 276: Parameter 2 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value "pregrc" is not valid. See WT:LOL, WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF. origin.
Noun
πρᾰ́σον • (práson) n (genitive πρᾰ́σου); second declension
- leek, Allium ampeloprasum (syn. Allium porrum)
Declension
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ πρᾰ́σον tò práson |
τὼ πρᾰ́σω tṑ prásō |
τᾰ̀ πρᾰ́σᾰ tà prása | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πρᾰ́σου toû prásou |
τοῖν πρᾰ́σοιν toîn prásoin |
τῶν πρᾰ́σων tôn prásōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πρᾰ́σῳ tôi prásōi |
τοῖν πρᾰ́σοιν toîn prásoin |
τοῖς πρᾰ́σοις toîs prásois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ πρᾰ́σον tò práson |
τὼ πρᾰ́σω tṑ prásō |
τᾰ̀ πρᾰ́σᾰ tà prása | ||||||||||
Vocative | πρᾰ́σον práson |
πρᾰ́σω prásō |
πρᾰ́σᾰ prása | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἀμπελόπρασον (ampelóprason)
- πράσινος (prásinos)
- πράσιος (prásios)
Descendants
- Greek: πράσο (práso)
- → Abkhaz: апрасқьиа (apʼraskja), а-прасқьиа (a-pʼraskja)
- → Coptic: ⲡⲗⲁⲥⲥⲁ (plassa)
- → Georgian: პრასა (ṗrasa)
- → Laz: პრასა (p̌rasa), პრასკა (p̌rasǩa), პროსკჲა́ (p̌rosǩyá), პოსკჲა́ (p̌osǩyá)
- → Old Armenian: պրաս (pras), պրախ (prax), պրասխ (prasx)
- → Old Church Slavonic: прасъ (prasŭ), празъ (prazŭ)
References
- “πράσον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πράσον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πράσον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- leek idem, page 484.
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “պրաս”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 114a
- Walde, Alois (1927) Julius Pokorny, editor, Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der indogermanischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Berlin: de Gruyter, page 84
- Boisacq, Émile (1916) “πράσον”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque (in French), Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 810
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1229
- Walde, Alois (1910) “porrum, porrus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 2nd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, pages 601–602