σωρός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Related to σορός (sorós, “cup, recipient”). Compare also Old Armenian թուշ (tʻuš).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sɔː.rós/ → /soˈros/ → /soˈros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sɔː.rós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /soˈros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /soˈros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /soˈros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /soˈros/

Noun

σωρός • (sōrós) m (genitive σωροῦ); second declension

1. heap, pile, mound (especially of corn)

   Synonyms: θημών (thēmṓn), θωμός (thōmós)

2. heap, quantity

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ σωρός; τοῦ σωροῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σωρός ho sōrós	τὼ σωρώ tṑ sōrṓ	οἱ σωροί hoi sōroí
Genitive	τοῦ σωροῦ toû sōroû	τοῖν σωροῖν toîn sōroîn	τῶν σωρῶν tôn sōrôn
Dative	τῷ σωρῷ tôi sōrôi	τοῖν σωροῖν toîn sōroîn	τοῖς σωροῖς toîs sōroîs
Accusative	τὸν σωρόν tòn sōrón	τὼ σωρώ tṑ sōrṓ	τοὺς σωρούς toùs sōroús
Vocative	σωρέ sōré	σωρώ sōrṓ	σωροί sōroí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σωρίτης (sōrítēs), σωρείτης (sōreítēs)

Descendants

• Greek: σωρός (sorós)
• New Latin: sorus

Further reading

• “σωρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σωρός 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.
  • accumulation idem, page 7.
  • heap idem, page 391.
  • litter idem, page 495.
  • mass idem, page 516.
  • pile idem, page 612.
• 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

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Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σωρός (sōrós, “heap, mound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /soˈɾos/
• Hyphenation: σω‧ρός (masculine)
• Homophone: σορός (sorós) (feminine)

Noun

σωρός • (sorós) m (plural σωροί)

1. heap, pile

Declension

Declension of σωρός

	singular	plural
nominative	σωρός •	σωροί •
genitive	σωρού •	σωρών •
accusative	σωρό •	σωρούς •
vocative	σωρέ •	σωροί •

Synonyms

• στοίβα f (stoíva, “stack, pile”)

Derived terms

• ένα σωρό (éna soró, “loads of, lots of, a whole bunch of”)