βρύον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From βρύω (brúō, “to abound, grow luxuriantly”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /brý.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbry.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβry.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvry.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvri.on/
Noun
βρῠ́ον • (brúon) n (genitive βρῠ́ου); second declension
- sea lettuce (Ulva lactuca)
- tree moss (Usnea barbata)
- liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha)
- clustering male blossom of the hazel
- (botany, in general) catkin, amentum
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ βρῠ́ον; τοῦ βρῠ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ βρῠ́ον tò brúon | τὼ βρῠ́ω tṑ brúō | τᾰ̀ βρῠ́ᾰ tà brúa | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ βρῠ́ου toû brúou | τοῖν βρῠ́οιν toîn brúoin | τῶν βρῠ́ων tôn brúōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ βρῠ́ῳ tôi brúōi | βρῠ́οιν brúoin | τοῖς βρῠ́οις toîs brúois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ βρῠ́ον tò brúon | βρῠ́ω brúō | τᾰ̀ βρῠ́ᾰ tà brúa | ||||||||||
Vocative | βρῠ́ον brúon | βρῠ́ω brúō | βρῠ́ᾰ brúa | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- βρῠόεις (bruóeis)
- βρῠόομαι (bruóomai)
- βρῠοφόρος (bruophóros)
Descendants
- → Latin: bryon
- → Translingual: Bryum
Further reading
- βρύον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βρύον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- βρύον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βρύον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2020)