φώρ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *pʰṓr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰṓr, from the root *bʰer- (“to carry”) (see φέρω (phérō)). Cognate with Latin fūr.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰɔ̌ːr/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pʰor/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ɸor/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /for/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /for/
Noun
φώρ • (phṓr) m (genitive φωρός); third declension
- a thief
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ φώρ; τοῦ φωρός (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ φώρ ho phṓr | τὼ φῶρε tṑ phôre | οἱ φῶρες hoi phôres | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ φωρός toû phōrós | τοῖν φωροῖν toîn phōroîn | τῶν φωρῶν tôn phōrôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ φωρῐ́ tôi phōrí | τοῖν φωροῖν toîn phōroîn | τοῖς φωρσῐ́ / φωρσῐ́ν toîs phōrsí(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν φῶρᾰ tòn phôra | τὼ φῶρε tṑ phôre | τοὺς φῶρᾰς toùs phôras | ||||||||||
Vocative | φώρ phṓr | φῶρε phôre | φῶρες phôres | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- φώριος (phṓrios)
References
- “φώρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φώρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- φώρ 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.
- thief idem, page 866.