μαυρός
See also: μαύρος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ἀμαυρός (amaurós)
Etymology
Possibly the Moors' native name (from a dialect of Berber), compare Central Atlas Tamazight ⵎⵖⵓⵔ (mɣur, “big”); or from Proto-Indo-European *mergʷ- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”), cognate to Proto-Germanic *merkuz (“dark”) and Albanian murg (“dark”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mau̯.rós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /mawˈros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /maˈβros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /maˈvros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /maˈvros/
Adjective
μαυρός • (maurós) m or f (neuter μαυρόν); second declension
- (pertaining either to light or color) dark, dusky
- (difficult to discern, barely able to be seen): dim, faint, indistinct, obscure, shadowy
- (not readily visible or noticeable): inconspicuous, unapparent, unnoticed, unknown
- (difficult to understand): fathomless, incomprehensible, inscrutable, obscure, uncertain, undefined, vague
- (tending to produce uncertainty or confusion): baffling, bewildering, perplexing, puzzling
- (pertaining to vision) blind, sightless; feeble, weak
Inflection
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
Nominative | μαυρός maurós |
μαυρόν maurón |
μαυρώ maurṓ |
μαυρώ maurṓ |
μαυροί mauroí |
μαυρᾰ́ maurá | ||||||||
Genitive | μαυροῦ mauroû |
μαυροῦ mauroû |
μαυροῖν mauroîn |
μαυροῖν mauroîn |
μαυρῶν maurôn |
μαυρῶν maurôn | ||||||||
Dative | μαυρῷ maurôi |
μαυρῷ maurôi |
μαυροῖν mauroîn |
μαυροῖν mauroîn |
μαυροῖς mauroîs |
μαυροῖς mauroîs | ||||||||
Accusative | μαυρόν maurón |
μαυρόν maurón |
μαυρώ maurṓ |
μαυρώ maurṓ |
μαυρούς mauroús |
μαυρᾰ́ maurá | ||||||||
Vocative | μαυρέ mauré |
μαυρόν maurón |
μαυρώ maurṓ |
μαυρώ maurṓ |
μαυροί mauroí |
μαυρᾰ́ maurá | ||||||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
μαυρῶς maurôs |
μαυρότερος mauróteros |
μαυρότᾰτος maurótatos | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: μαύρος (mávros, “black, dark”)
References
- “μαυρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μαυρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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