μόλουρος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
No etymology. Given the ending, perhaps it is from Pre-Greek; compare ἴνδουρος (índouros), παλίουρος (palíouros), σκίουρος (skíouros) and τάγχουρος (tánkhouros).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mó.loː.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmo.lu.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmo.lu.ros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmo.lu.ros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmo.lu.ros/
Noun
μόλουρος • (mólouros) m (genitive μολούρου); second declension
- kind of serpent
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ μόλουρος; τοῦ μολούρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μόλουρος ho mólouros | τὼ μολούρω tṑ moloúrō | οἱ μόλουροι hoi mólouroi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μολούρου toû moloúrou | τοῖν μολούροιν toîn moloúroin | τῶν μολούρων tôn moloúrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μολούρῳ tôi moloúrōi | μολούροιν moloúroin | τοῖς μολούροις toîs moloúrois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μόλουρον tòn mólouron | μολούρω moloúrō | τοὺς μολούρους toùs moloúrous | ||||||||||
Vocative | μόλουρε móloure | μολούρω moloúrō | μόλουροι mólouroi | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- μόλουρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μόλουρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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