δρίος
See also: Δρίος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Pedersen compared Old Irish driss (“bramble, thornbush”); however, this is uncertain. The word is often combined with δρῦς (drûs, “wood, oak”), but the formation remains unclear in any case.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /drí.os/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈdri.os/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈðri.os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈðri.os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈðri.os/
Noun
δρῐ́ος • (dríos) n (genitive δρῐ́εος); third declension
- copse, thicket
- Synonym: λόχμη (lókhmē)
Inflection
Third declension of τὸ δρῐ́ος; τοῦ δρῐ́εος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ δρῐ́ος tò dríos | τὼ δρῐ́εε tṑ dríee | τᾰ̀ δρῐ́εᾰ tà dríea | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ δρῐ́εος toû dríeos | τοῖν δρῐέοιν toîn driéoin | τῶν δρῐέων tôn driéōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ δρῐ́εῐ̈ tôi dríeï | δρῐέοιν driéoin | τοῖς δρῐ́εσῐ / δρῐ́εσῐν toîs dríesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ δρῐ́ος tò dríos | δρῐ́εε dríee | τᾰ̀ δρῐ́εᾰ tà dríea | ||||||||||
Vocative | δρῐ́ος dríos | δρῐ́εε dríee | δρῐ́εᾰ dríea | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- δρῐών (driṓn)
Further reading
- δρίος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- δρίος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- δρίος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2020)
- 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