γέρρον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Compare Old Armenian ծառ (caṙ), Old Norse kjarr (“copsewood, brush-wood, thicket”). Seems to be a widespread borrowing from a substrate language.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɡér̥.r̥on/ → /ˈʝer.ron/ → /ˈʝe.ron/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɡér̥.r̥on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡer.ron/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈʝer.ron/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈʝer.ron/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈʝe.ron/

Noun

γέρρον • (gérrhon) n (genitive γέρρου); second declension

1. anything made of wicker-work
   1. an oblong shield, covered with ox-hide, such as the Persians used
   2. wattled screens or booths, used in the Athens marketplace
   3. the wicker body of a cart
   4. penthouse
   5. rod, stake, dart

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ γέρρον; τοῦ γέρρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ γέρρον tò gérrhon	τὼ γέρρω tṑ gérrhō	τᾰ̀ γέρρᾰ tà gérrha
Genitive	τοῦ γέρρου toû gérrhou	τοῖν γέρροιν toîn gérrhoin	τῶν γέρρων tôn gérrhōn
Dative	τῷ γέρρῳ tôi gérrhōi	τοῖν γέρροιν toîn gérrhoin	τοῖς γέρροις toîs gérrhois
Accusative	τὸ γέρρον tò gérrhon	τὼ γέρρω tṑ gérrhō	τᾰ̀ γέρρᾰ tà gérrha
Vocative	γέρρον gérrhon	γέρρω gérrhō	γέρρᾰ gérrha
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• (penthouse): γερροχελώνη (gerrhokhelṓnē)

Descendants

• → Latin: gerrae

Further reading

• “γέρρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “γέρρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• γέρρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• γέρρον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • shield idem, page 765.
  • target idem, page 855.
  • wicker idem, page 978.
• 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