ἄρον
See also: ἆρον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Hemmerdinger derived it from Egyptian r (“reed, cane”). Perhaps it is also contained in ἀρίς (arís) and ἀρίσαρον (arísaron). A comparison with Latin arundo (“cane”) is less probable.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /á.ron/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈa.ron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.ron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.ron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.ron/
Noun
ἄρον • (áron) n (genitive ἄρου); second declension
- cuckoopint (Arum italicum)
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ ᾰ̓́ρον; τοῦ ᾰ̓́ρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ᾰ̓́ρον tò áron | τὼ ᾰ̓́ρω tṑ árō | τᾰ̀ ᾰ̓́ρᾰ tà ára | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ᾰ̓́ρου toû árou | τοῖν ᾰ̓́ροιν toîn ároin | τῶν ᾰ̓́ρων tôn árōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ᾰ̓́ρῳ tôi árōi | τοῖν ᾰ̓́ροιν toîn ároin | τοῖς ᾰ̓́ροις toîs árois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ᾰ̓́ρον tò áron | τὼ ᾰ̓́ρω tṑ árō | τᾰ̀ ᾰ̓́ρᾰ tà ára | ||||||||||
Vocative | ᾰ̓́ρον áron | ᾰ̓́ρω árō | ᾰ̓́ρᾰ ára | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → English: arum
- → Translingual: Arum
Further reading
- ἄρον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἄρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄρον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
- 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