βάρακος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Furnée compares βάλαγρος (bálagros, “kind of barb”) and suggests a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bá.ra.kos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈba.ra.kos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβa.ra.kos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈva.ra.kos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈva.ra.kos/
Noun
βᾰ́ρᾰκος • (bárakos) m (genitive βᾰρᾰ́κου); second declension
- kind of freshwater fish
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ βᾰ́ρᾰκος; τοῦ βᾰρᾰ́κου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ βᾰ́ρᾰκος ho bárakos | τὼ βᾰρᾰ́κω tṑ barákō | οἱ βᾰ́ρᾰκοι hoi bárakoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ βᾰρᾰ́κου toû barákou | τοῖν βᾰρᾰ́κοιν toîn barákoin | τῶν βᾰρᾰ́κων tôn barákōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ βᾰρᾰ́κῳ tôi barákōi | τοῖν βᾰρᾰ́κοιν toîn barákoin | τοῖς βᾰρᾰ́κοις toîs barákois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν βᾰ́ρᾰκον tòn bárakon | τὼ βᾰρᾰ́κω tṑ barákō | τοὺς βᾰρᾰ́κους toùs barákous | ||||||||||
Vocative | βᾰ́ρᾰκε bárake | βᾰρᾰ́κω barákō | βᾰ́ρᾰκοι bárakoi | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- βάρακος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βάρακος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
- 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