πίτυρον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The formation is like λέπυρον (lépuron), but without a certain explanation. It has been connected to Latin putus (“pure”), Sanskrit पूत (pūtá, “cleansed”) and Proto-Germanic *faujaną (“to sift”), but this is highly unlikely. Note the synonymous glosses πήτεα (pḗtea), πητῖται (pētîtai) which are connected with πῆν (pên). Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin in view of the suffix "-ῡρ-".

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pí.tyː.ron/ → /ˈpi.ty.ron/ → /ˈpi.ti.ron/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pí.tyː.ron/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ty.ron/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ty.ron/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ty.ron/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ti.ron/

Noun

πίτῡρον • (pítūron) n (genitive πῐτῡ́ρου); second declension

1. (in the plural) husks of corn, bran
2. (pathology) bran-like eruption on the skin, especially dandruff, scurf
3. bran-like sediment in urine

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ πῐ́τῡρον; τοῦ πῐτῡ́ρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πῐ́τῡρον tò pítūron	τὼ πῐτῡ́ρω tṑ pitū́rō	τᾰ̀ πῐ́τῡρᾰ tà pítūra
Genitive	τοῦ πῐτῡ́ρου toû pitū́rou	τοῖν πῐτῡ́ροιν toîn pitū́roin	τῶν πῐτῡ́ρων tôn pitū́rōn
Dative	τῷ πῐτῡ́ρῳ tôi pitū́rōi	τοῖν πῐτῡ́ροιν toîn pitū́roin	τοῖς πῐτῡ́ροις toîs pitū́rois
Accusative	τὸ πῐ́τῡρον tò pítūron	τὼ πῐτῡ́ρω tṑ pitū́rō	τᾰ̀ πῐ́τῡρᾰ tà pítūra
Vocative	πῐ́τῡρον pítūron	πῐτῡ́ρω pitū́rō	πῐ́τῡρᾰ pítūra
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• ἄχυρον (ákhuron)

Derived terms

• πιτυρίας (piturías)
• πιτυρίασις (pituríasis)
• πιτυρίζω (piturízō)
• πιτυρίς (piturís)
• πιτύρισμα (pitúrisma)
• πιτυρίτης (piturítēs)
• πιτυροειδής (pituroeidḗs)
• πιτυρόομαι (pituróomai)
• πιτυρώδης (piturṓdēs)

 

Descendants

• Greek: πίτουρο (pítouro)

Further reading

• “πίτυρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πίτυρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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