πτερόν
Ancient Greek
Etymology
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From Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥. Connected with πέτομαι (pétomai, “I fly”). Cognate with English feather.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pte.rón/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pteˈron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pteˈron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pteˈron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pteˈron/
Noun
πτερόν • (pterón) n (genitive πτεροῦ); second declension
Usage notes
- Usually plural.
- Along with ᾠόν (ōión), λουτρόν (loutrón), ζυγόν (zugón) and ἑρπετόν (herpetón) this is one of the very few neuter nouns that do not have a recessive accent.
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ πτερόν tò pterón |
τὼ πτερώ tṑ pterṓ |
τᾰ̀ πτερᾰ́ tà pterá | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πτεροῦ toû pteroû |
τοῖν πτεροῖν toîn pteroîn |
τῶν πτερῶν tôn pterôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πτερῷ tôi pterôi |
τοῖν πτεροῖν toîn pteroîn |
τοῖς πτεροῖς toîs pteroîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ πτερόν tò pterón |
τὼ πτερώ tṑ pterṓ |
τᾰ̀ πτερᾰ́ tà pterá | ||||||||||
Vocative | πτερόν pterón |
πτερώ pterṓ |
πτερᾰ́ pterá | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- πτέρινος (ptérinos)
Descendants
- Greek: φτερό (fteró)
Further reading
- “πτερόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πτερόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πτερόν”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πτερόν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πτερόν in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “πτερόν”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek oxytone terms
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the second declension