τέταρος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- τατύρας (tatúras)
Etymology
Liddell and Scott remark that the word is a loan from the Orient, possibly Proto-Iranian *tatr̥wáh (“pheasant”), referring to Middle Persian [script needed] (tedzrev, “pheasant”). They further compare Lithuanian tetervà (“black grouse”). Athenaeus of Naucratis states that this word was imported from Media. See also τέτραξ (tétrax, “hazel grouse”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /té.ta.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈte.ta.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈte.ta.ros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈte.ta.ros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈte.ta.ros/
Noun
τέτᾰρος • (tétaros) m (genitive τετᾰ́ρου); second declension
- pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)
- Synonym: φασιανός (phasianós)
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ τέτᾰρος; τοῦ τετᾰ́ρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ τέτᾰρος ho tétaros | τὼ τετᾰ́ρω tṑ tetárō | οἱ τέτᾰροι hoi tétaroi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ τετᾰ́ρου toû tetárou | τοῖν τετᾰ́ροιν toîn tetároin | τῶν τετᾰ́ρων tôn tetárōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ τετᾰ́ρῳ tôi tetárōi | τοῖν τετᾰ́ροιν toîn tetároin | τοῖς τετᾰ́ροις toîs tetárois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν τέτᾰρον tòn tétaron | τὼ τετᾰ́ρω tṑ tetárō | τοὺς τετᾰ́ρους toùs tetárous | ||||||||||
Vocative | τέτᾰρε tétare | τετᾰ́ρω tetárō | τέτᾰροι tétaroi | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “τέταρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τέταρος 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