ἔμπετρον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Neutral form of ἔμπετρος (émpetros, “growing on rocks”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ém.pe.tron/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈem.pe.tron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈem.pe.tron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈem.pe.tron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈem.be.tron/
Noun
ἔμπετρον • (émpetron) n (genitive ἐμπέτρου); second declension
- sea heath (Frankenia pulverulenta)
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ ἔμπετρον; τοῦ ἐμπέτρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ἔμπετρον tò émpetron | τὼ ἐμπέτρω tṑ empétrō | τᾰ̀ ἔμπετρᾰ tà émpetra | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ἐμπέτρου toû empétrou | τοῖν ἐμπέτροιν toîn empétroin | τῶν ἐμπέτρων tôn empétrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ἐμπέτρῳ tôi empétrōi | τοῖν ἐμπέτροιν toîn empétroin | τοῖς ἐμπέτροις toîs empétrois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ἔμπετρον tò émpetron | τὼ ἐμπέτρω tṑ empétrō | τᾰ̀ ἔμπετρᾰ tà émpetra | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἔμπετρον émpetron | ἐμπέτρω empétrō | ἔμπετρᾰ émpetra | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Translingual: Empetrum
Further reading
- “ἔμπετρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἔμπετρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἔμπετρον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)