ὄρνεον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂oren, *h₃eren. Cognates include Old Armenian որոր (oror), Hittite 𒄩𒀀𒊏𒀸 (ḫāras), Proto-Slavic *orьlъ, and Old English earn (English erne). See also ὄρνις (órnis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ór.ne.on/ → /ˈor.ne.on/ → /ˈor.ne.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ór.ne.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈor.ne.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈor.ne.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈor.ne.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈor.ne.on/

Noun

ὄρνεον • (órneon) n (genitive ὀρνέου); second declension

1. a bird
2. (in the plural) the bird-market

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ὄρνεον; τοῦ ὀρνέου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ὄρνεον tò órneon	τὼ ὀρνέω tṑ ornéō	τᾰ̀ ὄρνεᾰ tà órnea
Genitive	τοῦ ὀρνέου toû ornéou	τοῖν ὀρνέοιν toîn ornéoin	τῶν ὀρνέων tôn ornéōn
Dative	τῷ ὀρνέῳ tôi ornéōi	τοῖν ὀρνέοιν toîn ornéoin	τοῖς ὀρνέοις toîs ornéois
Accusative	τὸ ὄρνεον tò órneon	τὼ ὀρνέω tṑ ornéō	τᾰ̀ ὄρνεᾰ tà órnea
Vocative	ὄρνεον órneon	ὀρνέω ornéō	ὄρνεᾰ órnea
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: όρνεο (órneo), όρνιο (órnio)

Further reading

• “ὄρνεον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὄρνεον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὄρνεον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὄρνεον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ὄρνεον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G3732 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• ὄρνεον in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bird idem, page 79.
  • fowl idem, page 341.
• 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