πράσον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Traditionally connected with Latin porrum (“leek”) and Albanian presh, derived from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥so- (“leek”). But Beekes does not rule out a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

πρᾰ́σον • (práson) n (genitive πρᾰ́σου); second declension

  1. leek, Allium ampeloprasum (syn. Allium porrum)

Declension
Second declension of τὸ πρᾰ́σον; τοῦ πρᾰ́σου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τὸ πρᾰ́σον
tò práson		 τὼ πρᾰ́σω
tṑ prásō		 τᾰ̀ πρᾰ́σᾰ
tà prása
Genitive τοῦ πρᾰ́σου
toû prásou		 τοῖν πρᾰ́σοιν
toîn prásoin		 τῶν πρᾰ́σων
tôn prásōn
Dative τῷ πρᾰ́σῳ
tôi prásōi		 τοῖν πρᾰ́σοιν
toîn prásoin		 τοῖς πρᾰ́σοις
toîs prásois
Accusative τὸ πρᾰ́σον
tò práson		 τὼ πρᾰ́σω
tṑ prásō		 τᾰ̀ πρᾰ́σᾰ
tà prása
Vocative πρᾰ́σον
práson		 πρᾰ́σω
prásō		 πρᾰ́σᾰ
prása
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Greek: πράσο (práso), πράσσο n (prásso)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: پراصه (prasa, pırasa), پراسه (prasa, pırasa)
      • Turkish: pırasa
      • → Armenian: փըրասա (pʻərasa), փըռասա (pʻəṙasa)
      • → Middle Armenian: փռասա (pʻṙasa)
      • → Ladino: prasa
  • → Coptic: ⲡⲗⲁⲥⲥⲁ (plassa)
  • → Laz: პრასკჲა (p̌rasǩya), პროსკჲა (p̌rosǩya), პრასა (p̌rasa), პრასკა (p̌rasǩa), პოსკჲა (p̌osǩya), პროსკა (p̌rosǩa), პასქია (p̌askia)
  • → Mingrelian: პურასკია (ṗurasḳia), პურასქია (ṗuraskia)
    • → Abkhaz: а-прасқьиа (a-pʼraskja)
  • → Old Armenian: պրաս (pras), պրախ (prax), պրասխ (prasx), պարասխ (parasx)
    • Armenian: պրաս (pras)
    • Middle Armenian: պռաս (pṙas)
  • → Old Church Slavonic: прасъ (prasŭ), празъ (prazŭ)
  • → Old Georgian: პრასაჲ (ṗrasay)
    • Georgian: პრასი (ṗrasi), პრასა (ṗrasa)
      • → Bats: პრას (ṗras)
      • → Ossetian: прасӕ (prasæ), праса (prasa)
  • → Romanian: praz

Further reading
  • “πράσον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “πράσον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • πράσον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
    • leek idem, page 484.
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “պրաս”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 114a
  • Walde, Alois (1927) Julius Pokorny, editor, Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der indogermanischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Berlin: de Gruyter, page 84
  • Boisacq, Émile (1916) “πράσον”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque (in French), Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 810
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1229
  • Walde, Alois (1910) “porrum, porrus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 2nd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, pages 601–602
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