ἄροτρον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
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From Proto-Indo-European *h₂érh₃trom, from *h₂erh₃- + *-trom; equivalent to ἀρόω (aróō, “to plough”) + -τρον (-tron, instrument noun suffix). Cognates include Latin arātrum, Old Armenian արաւր (arawr).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /á.ro.tron/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈa.ro.tron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.ro.tron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.ro.tron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.ro.tron/
Noun
ᾰ̓́ροτρον • (árotron) n (genitive ᾰ̓ρότρου); second declension
- plough
- (figuratively, in the plural) the organs of generation
Declension
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ἄροτρον tò árotron |
τὼ ἀρότρω tṑ arótrō |
τᾰ̀ ἄροτρᾰ tà árotra | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ἀρότρου toû arótrou |
τοῖν ἀρότροιν toîn arótroin |
τῶν ἀρότρων tôn arótrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ἀρότρῳ tôi arótrōi |
τοῖν ἀρότροιν toîn arótroin |
τοῖς ἀρότροις toîs arótrois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ἄροτρον tò árotron |
τὼ ἀρότρω tṑ arótrō |
τᾰ̀ ἄροτρᾰ tà árotra | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἄροτρον árotron |
ἀρότρω arótrō |
ἄροτρᾰ árotra | ||||||||||
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Related terms
- ἀρόω (aróō)
Descendants
- Greek: άροτρο (árotro)
Further reading
- “ἄροτρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄροτρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἄροτρον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἄροτρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄροτρον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἄροτρον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἄροτρον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G723 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- plough idem, page 621.
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -τρον
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the second declension
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