Φάρος

See also: φάρος and φᾶρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain. In one proposed etymology the Ancient Greek name comes from the (unattested) Egyptian name for the island, corresponding to Coptic ⲫⲁⲣⲉϩ (phareh, “the guard”) = ⲫ- (ph-, “the”) +‎ ⲁⲣⲉϩ (areh, “guard”);[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰá.ros/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰa.ros/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸa.ros/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ros/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ros/

Proper noun

Φᾰ́ρος • (Pháros) f (genitive Φᾰ́ρου); second declension

Pharos (a former island off Alexandria, Egypt)

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ Φᾰ́ρος; τῆς Φᾰ́ρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Φᾰ́ρος hē Pháros
Genitive	τῆς Φᾰ́ρου tês Phárou
Dative	τῇ Φᾰ́ρῳ têi Phárōi
Accusative	τὴν Φᾰ́ρον tḕn Pháron
Vocative	Φᾰ́ρε Pháre
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Proper noun

Φάρος • (Pháros) m

The Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World[2]

Descendants

Greek: φάρος (fáros)
→ Arabic: فاروس
→ Armenian: Փարոս (Pʻaros), փարոս (pʻaros)
→ English: Pharos
→ French: Phare
→ Hebrew: פארוס
→ Latin: Pharus, Pharos, pharus
- Italian: faro
- Old French:
  - French: phare
    - → Bulgarian: фар (far)
    - → English: phare
    - → Khmer: ហ្វារ (faa)
    - → Luxembourgish: Phar
    - → Macedonian: фар (far)
    - → Moore: faare
    - → Romanian: far
    - → Russian: фара (fara)
      - → Crimean Tatar: fara
    - → Turkish: far
    - → Vietnamese: pha
- Old Leonese:
  - Asturian: faru
- Old Occitan:
  - Catalan: far
- Old Galician-Portuguese:
  - Galician: faro
  - Portuguese: faro, farol
- Old Spanish:
  - Spanish: faro, farol
    - → Bikol Central: parol
    - → Cebuano: parol
    - → English: farol
    - → Tagalog: parol
      - → English: parol
- → Albanian: far
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Latin script: Hvar

Cyrillic script: Хвар
- → English: Hvar

References

Paul Ernst Jablonski (1804) Opuscula‎, volume 1, Leyden: A. & J. Honkoop, page 377 ff.
Strabo (no later than 23 CE) “Chapter XVII, §§ 6 & 9”, in Geographica‎.

“Φάρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Φάρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“Φάρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021

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[1] Paul Ernst Jablonski (1804) Opuscula‎, volume 1, Leyden: A. & J. Honkoop, page 377 ff.

[2] Strabo (no later than 23 CE) “Chapter XVII, §§ 6 & 9”, in Geographica‎.

Φάρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Inflection

Proper noun

Descendants

References

Further reading