ἦτρον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɛ̂ː.tron/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈe̝.tron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈi.tron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈi.tron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.tron/
Noun
ἦτρον • (êtron) n (genitive ἤτρου); second declension
- (anatomy) abdomen, especially the lower part of it, belly
- (botany) pith of a reed
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ ἦτρον; τοῦ ἤτρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ἦτρον tò êtron | τὼ ἤτρω tṑ ḗtrō | τᾰ̀ ἦτρᾰ tà êtra | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ἤτρου toû ḗtrou | τοῖν ἤτροιν toîn ḗtroin | τῶν ἤτρων tôn ḗtrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ἤτρῳ tôi ḗtrōi | τοῖν ἤτροιν toîn ḗtroin | τοῖς ἤτροις toîs ḗtrois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ἦτρον tò êtron | τὼ ἤτρω tṑ ḗtrō | τᾰ̀ ἦτρᾰ tà êtra | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἦτρον êtron | ἤτρω ḗtrō | ἦτρᾰ êtra | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἠτρῐαῖος (ētriaîos)
Further reading
- “ἦτρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἦτρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette