προῦμνον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• προῦνον (proûnon)

Etymology

Loanword from a language of Asia Minor.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /prûːm.non/ → /ˈprum.non/ → /ˈprum.non/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /prûːm.non/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈprum.non/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈprum.non/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈprum.non/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈprum.non/

Noun

προῦμνον • (proûmnon) n (genitive προύμνου); second declension

1. A plum fruit.

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ προῦμνον; τοῦ προύμνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ προῦμνον tò proûmnon	τὼ προύμνω tṑ proúmnō	τᾰ̀ προῦμνᾰ tà proûmna
Genitive	τοῦ προύμνου toû proúmnou	τοῖν προύμνοιν toîn proúmnoin	τῶν προύμνων tôn proúmnōn
Dative	τῷ προύμνῳ tôi proúmnōi	τοῖν προύμνοιν toîn proúmnoin	τοῖς προύμνοις toîs proúmnois
Accusative	τὸ προῦμνον tò proûmnon	τὼ προύμνω tṑ proúmnō	τᾰ̀ προῦμνᾰ tà proûmna
Vocative	προῦμνον proûmnon	προύμνω proúmnō	προῦμνᾰ proûmna
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: prūnum (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

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