ἁλμυρός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἅλς (háls, “salt”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hal.my.rós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)al.myˈros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /al.myˈros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /al.myˈros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /al.miˈros/
Adjective
ἁλμῠρός • (halmurós) m (feminine ἁλμῠρᾱ́, neuter ἁλμῠρόν); first/second declension
- salty
Declension
First and second declension of ἁλμῠρός; ἁλμῠρᾱ́; ἁλμῠρόν (Attic)
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
Nominative | ἁλμῠρός halmurós | ἁλμῠρᾱ́ halmurā́ | ἁλμῠρόν halmurón | ἁλμῠρώ halmurṓ | ἁλμῠρᾱ́ halmurā́ | ἁλμῠρώ halmurṓ | ἁλμῠροί halmuroí | ἁλμῠραί halmuraí | ἁλμῠρᾰ́ halmurá | |||||
Genitive | ἁλμῠροῦ halmuroû | ἁλμῠρᾶς halmurâs | ἁλμῠροῦ halmuroû | ἁλμῠροῖν halmuroîn | ἁλμῠραῖν halmuraîn | ἁλμῠροῖν halmuroîn | ἁλμῠρῶν halmurôn | ἁλμῠρῶν halmurôn | ἁλμῠρῶν halmurôn | |||||
Dative | ἁλμῠρῷ halmurôi | ἁλμῠρᾷ halmurâi | ἁλμῠρῷ halmurôi | ἁλμῠροῖν halmuroîn | ἁλμῠραῖν halmuraîn | ἁλμῠροῖν halmuroîn | ἁλμῠροῖς halmuroîs | ἁλμῠραῖς halmuraîs | ἁλμῠροῖς halmuroîs | |||||
Accusative | ἁλμῠρόν halmurón | ἁλμῠρᾱ́ν halmurā́n | ἁλμῠρόν halmurón | ἁλμῠρώ halmurṓ | ἁλμῠρᾱ́ halmurā́ | ἁλμῠρώ halmurṓ | ἁλμῠρούς halmuroús | ἁλμῠρᾱ́ς halmurā́s | ἁλμῠρᾰ́ halmurá | |||||
Vocative | ἁλμῠρέ halmuré | ἁλμῠρᾱ́ halmurā́ | ἁλμῠρόν halmurón | ἁλμῠρώ halmurṓ | ἁλμῠρᾱ́ halmurā́ | ἁλμῠρώ halmurṓ | ἁλμῠροί halmuroí | ἁλμῠραί halmuraí | ἁλμῠρᾰ́ halmurá | |||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
ἁλμῠρῶς halmurôs | ἁλμῠρώτερος halmurṓteros | ἁλμῠρώτᾰτος halmurṓtatos | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: αλμυρός (almyrós)
Further reading
- ἁλμυρός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἁλμυρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἁλμυρός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἁλμυρός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἁλμυρός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- brackish idem, page 92.
- briny idem, page 100.
- saline idem, page 732.
- salt idem, page 732.