γλουρός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Considered by Frisk a loan from Phrygian, likely not Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɡluː.rós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ɡluˈros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ɣluˈros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ɣluˈros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ɣluˈros/
Noun
γλουρός • (glourós) m (genitive γλουροῦ); second declension
- gold
- early 2nd c. CE, Besantinus, “Βησαντίνου Βωμός”, in Greek Anthology, Book XV:
- Ἐς γὰρ βωμὸν ὁρῇς με μήτε γλούρου//πλίνθοις μήτ' Ἀλύβης βώλοις.
- Es gàr bōmòn horêis me mḗte gloúrou//plínthois mḗt' Alúbēs bṓlois.
- look upon me as an altar, built not from bricks of gold nor from (silver) nuggets of Alybe
- Synonyms: χρυσός (khrusós), τάγχουρος (tánkhouros)
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Inflection
Second declension of ὁ γλουρός; τοῦ γλουροῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ γλουρός ho glourós | τὼ γλουρώ tṑ glourṓ | οἱ γλουροί hoi glouroí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ γλουροῦ toû glouroû | τοῖν γλουροῖν toîn glouroîn | τῶν γλουρῶν tôn glourôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ γλουρῷ tôi glourôi | τοῖν γλουροῖν toîn glouroîn | τοῖς γλουροῖς toîs glouroîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν γλουρόν tòn glourón | τὼ γλουρώ tṑ glourṓ | τοὺς γλουρούς toùs glouroús | ||||||||||
Vocative | γλουρέ glouré | γλουρώ glourṓ | γλουροί glouroí | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “γλουρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press