γέρρον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Compare Old Armenian ծառ (caṙ), Old Norse kjarr (“copsewood, brush-wood, thicket”). Seems to be a widespread borrowing from a substrate language.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɡér̥.r̥on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈɡer.ron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈʝer.ron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈʝer.ron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈʝe.ron/
Noun
γέρρον • (gérrhon) n (genitive γέρρου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ γέρρον tò gérrhon |
τὼ γέρρω tṑ gérrhō |
τᾰ̀ γέρρᾰ tà gérrha | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ γέρρου toû gérrhou |
τοῖν γέρροιν toîn gérrhoin |
τῶν γέρρων tôn gérrhōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ γέρρῳ tôi gérrhōi |
τοῖν γέρροιν toîn gérrhoin |
τοῖς γέρροις toîs gérrhois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ γέρρον tò gérrhon |
τὼ γέρρω tṑ gérrhō |
τᾰ̀ γέρρᾰ tà gérrha | ||||||||||
| Vocative | γέρρον gérrhon |
γέρρω gérrhō |
γέρρᾰ gérrha | ||||||||||
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Synonyms
- (penthouse): γερροχελώνη (gerrhokhelṓnē)
Descendants
- → Latin: gerrae
Further reading
- “γέρρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “γέρρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- γέρρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- γέρρον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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
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