πυρός

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥ (“fire”), like πῦρ (pûr, “fire”); it meant “spelt” due to the grains having to be dried on fire, then the word was transferred onto the later popular wheat, while other languages used new formations to denote wheat, Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz, Proto-Slavic *pьšenica etc.

πῡρός • (pūrós) m (genitive πῡροῦ); second declension

Second declension of ὁ πῡρός; τοῦ πῡροῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πῡρός ho pūrós	τὼ πῡρώ tṑ pūrṓ	οἱ πῡροί hoi pūroí
Genitive	τοῦ πῡροῦ toû pūroû	τοῖν πῡροῖν toîn pūroîn	τῶν πῡρῶν tôn pūrôn
Dative	τῷ πῡρῷ tôi pūrôi	τοῖν πῡροῖν toîn pūroîn	τοῖς πῡροῖς toîs pūroîs
Accusative	τὸν πῡρόν tòn pūrón	τὼ πῡρώ tṑ pūrṓ	τοὺς πῡρούς toùs pūroús
Vocative	πῡρέ pūré	πῡρώ pūrṓ	πῡροί pūroí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

→? Arabic: بُرّ (burr, “wheat”)
→ Old Georgian: პური (ṗuri)
- Georgian: პური (ṗuri, “wheat; bread”)
  - → Armenian: պուրի (puri)
→ Sicilian: puru puru (“repeated interjection to call hens, now disconnected from the sense of 'wheat'”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

πῠρός • (purós)

πυρός • (pyrós) n

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