βᾶρις

Ancient Greek

Etymology 1

From Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare), from Demotic br, from Egyptian bꜣjr (“transport ship”),

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bâː.ris/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈba.ris/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβa.ris/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈva.ris/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈva.ris/

Noun

βᾶρῐς • (bârĭs) f (genitive βᾱ́ρῐδος); third declension

baris (a type of flat-bottomed freighter used on the Nile in Ancient Egypt)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ βᾶρῐς; τῆς βᾱ́ρῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βᾶρῐς hē bârĭs	τὼ βᾱ́ρῐδε tṑ bā́rĭde	αἱ βᾱ́ρῐδες hai bā́rĭdes
Genitive	τῆς βᾱ́ρῐδος tês bā́rĭdos	τοῖν βᾱρῐ́δοιν toîn bārĭ́doin	τῶν βᾱρῐ́δων tôn bārĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ βᾱ́ρῐδῐ têi bā́rĭdĭ	τοῖν βᾱρῐ́δοιν toîn bārĭ́doin	ταῖς βᾱ́ρῐσῐ / βᾱ́ρῐσῐν taîs bā́rĭsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν βᾱ́ρῐδᾰ tḕn bā́rĭdă	τὼ βᾱ́ρῐδε tṑ bā́rĭde	τᾱ̀ς βᾱ́ρῐδᾰς tā̀s bā́rĭdăs
Vocative	βᾶρῐς bârĭs	βᾱ́ρῐδε bā́rĭde	βᾱ́ρῐδες bā́rĭdes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

→ English: baris (learned)
→ Latin: bāris (see there for further descendants)

Etymology 2

Probably from Illyrian, confronting βαυρία (bauría, “house, dwelling”) and βύριον (búrion, “house”). Might be related to Proto-Albanian *bhou̯onā (“dwelling, abode”), *bhunā (“hut”), but the lack of an -r- or even an initial -a- makes this unlikely.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bâː.ris/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈba.ris/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβa.ris/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈva.ris/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈva.ris/

Noun

βᾶρῐς • (bârĭs) f (genitive βᾱ́ρεως); third declension

farmhouse, country house
large house, tower

Declension

Third declension of ἡ βᾶρῐς; τῆς βᾱ́ρεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βᾶρῐς hē bârĭs	τὼ βᾱ́ρει tṑ bā́rei	αἱ βᾱ́ρεις hai bā́reis
Genitive	τῆς βᾱ́ρεως tês bā́reōs	τοῖν βᾱρέοιν toîn bāréoin	τῶν βᾱ́ρεων tôn bā́reōn
Dative	τῇ βᾱ́ρει têi bā́rei	τοῖν βᾱρέοιν toîn bāréoin	ταῖς βᾱ́ρεσῐ / βᾱ́ρεσῐν taîs bā́resĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν βᾶρῐν tḕn bârĭn	τὼ βᾱ́ρει tṑ bā́rei	τᾱ̀ς βᾱ́ρεις tā̀s bā́reis
Vocative	βᾶρῐ bârĭ	βᾱ́ρει bā́rei	βᾱ́ρεις bā́reis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

“βᾶρις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
βᾶρις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
βᾶρις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
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