λαμπτήρ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From λάμπω (lámpō) + -τήρ (-tḗr).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lamp.tɛ̌ːr/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /lampˈte̝r/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /lampˈtir/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /lampˈtir/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /lambˈtir/
Noun
λᾰμπτήρ • (lamptḗr) m (genitive λᾰμπτῆρος); third declension
- lighter, torch, lantern
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ λᾰμπτήρ; τοῦ λᾰμπτῆρος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ λᾰμπτήρ ho lamptḗr | τὼ λᾰμπτῆρε tṑ lamptêre | οἱ λᾰμπτῆρες hoi lamptêres | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ λᾰμπτῆρος toû lamptêros | τοῖν λᾰμπτήροιν toîn lamptḗroin | τῶν λᾰμπτήρων tôn lamptḗrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ λᾰμπτῆρῐ tôi lamptêri | τοῖν λᾰμπτήροιν toîn lamptḗroin | τοῖς λᾰμπτῆρσῐ / λᾰμπτῆρσῐν toîs lamptêrsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν λᾰμπτῆρᾰ tòn lamptêra | τὼ λᾰμπτῆρε tṑ lamptêre | τοὺς λᾰμπτῆρᾰς toùs lamptêras | ||||||||||
Vocative | λᾰμπτήρ lamptḗr | λᾰμπτῆρε lamptêre | λᾰμπτῆρες lamptêres | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Aramaic:
- → Classical Syriac: ܢܦܛܝܪܐ (nap̄ṭêrā), ܢܦܛܪܐ (nap̄ṭērā), ܢܘܦܛܪܐ (nwpṭrʾ)
- → Greek: λαμπτήρας (lamptíras)
- → Latin: lamptēr, lanterna
- → Middle Persian: 𐫓𐫖𐫤𐫏𐫡 (lmtyr /lamtēr, lamtīr/)
- → Parthian: 𐫓𐫖𐫤𐫏𐫡 (lmtyr /lamtēr, lamtīr/)
- → Old Armenian: լապտեր (lapter), ղապտեր (łapter)
- → Sogdian: [script needed] (δmtyr), [script needed] (dmtyr)
Further reading
- “λαμπτήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λαμπτήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λαμπτήρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- beacon idem, page 66.
- brand idem, page 93.
- fire-brand idem, page 322.
- torch idem, page 881.
- 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, page 829