ζάρος

ζάρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /zá.ros/ → /ˈza.ros/ → /ˈza.ros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /zá.ros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈza.ros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈza.ros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈza.ros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈza.ros/

Noun

ζᾰ́ρος • (záros) m (genitive ζᾰ́ρου); second declension

1. unknown kind of bird of prey

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ζᾰ́ρος; τοῦ ζᾰ́ρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ζᾰ́ρος ho záros	τὼ ζᾰ́ρω tṑ zárō	οἱ ζᾰ́ροι hoi zároi
Genitive	τοῦ ζᾰ́ρου toû zárou	τοῖν ζᾰ́ροιν toîn zároin	τῶν ζᾰ́ρων tôn zárōn
Dative	τῷ ζᾰ́ρῳ tôi zárōi	τοῖν ζᾰ́ροιν toîn zároin	τοῖς ζᾰ́ροις toîs zárois
Accusative	τὸν ζᾰ́ρον tòn záron	τὼ ζᾰ́ρω tṑ zárō	τοὺς ζᾰ́ρους toùs zárous
Vocative	ζᾰ́ρε záre	ζᾰ́ρω zárō	ζᾰ́ροι zároi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ζάρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Gamkrelidze, Th. V.; Ivanov, V. V. (1995) Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans. A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and Proto-Culture. Part I: The Text (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 80), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 800, compare Georgian ძერა (ʒera, “kite”), itself from Proto-Georgian-Zan *ʒ₁er- (“kite”)