πρῖνος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, from a substrate root common to Proto-Slavic *brinъ (“larch”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /prîː.nos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpri.nos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpri.nos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpri.nos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpri.nos/
Noun
πρῖνος • (prînos) f (genitive πρῑ́νου); second declension
- holm oak, ilex
- kermes oak
Declension
Second declension of ἡ πρῖνος; τῆς πρῑ́νου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ πρῖνος hē prînos | τὼ πρῑ́νω tṑ prī́nō | αἱ πρῖνοι hai prînoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς πρῑ́νου tês prī́nou | τοῖν πρῑ́νοιν toîn prī́noin | τῶν πρῑ́νων tôn prī́nōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ πρῑ́νῳ têi prī́nōi | τοῖν πρῑ́νοιν toîn prī́noin | ταῖς πρῑ́νοις taîs prī́nois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν πρῖνον tḕn prînon | τὼ πρῑ́νω tṑ prī́nō | τᾱ̀ς πρῑ́νους tā̀s prī́nous | ||||||||||
Vocative | πρῖνε prîne | πρῑ́νω prī́nō | πρῖνοι prînoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- πρινίδιον (prinídion)
- πρινεύς (prineús)
- πρίνινος (príninos)
- πρινώδης (prinṓdēs)
- Πρινόεσσα (Prinóessa)
Descendants
- Latin: prīnus
Further reading
- πρῖνος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πρῖνος 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