δηνάριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēnārius.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ðiˈna.ri.on/ → /ðiˈna.ri.on/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /de̝ˈna.ri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ðiˈna.ri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðiˈna.ri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðiˈna.ri.on/

Noun

δηνάριον • (dēnárion) n (genitive δηναρίου); second declension

1. (Koine) a denarius

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ δηνάριον; τοῦ δηναρίου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ δηνάριον tò dēnárion	τὼ δηναρίω tṑ dēnaríō	τᾰ̀ δηνάριᾰ tằ dēnáriă
Genitive	τοῦ δηναρίου toû dēnaríou	τοῖν δηναρίοιν toîn dēnaríoin	τῶν δηναρίων tôn dēnaríōn
Dative	τῷ δηναρίῳ tôi dēnaríōi	τοῖν δηναρίοιν toîn dēnaríoin	τοῖς δηναρίοις toîs dēnaríois
Accusative	τὸ δηνάριον tò dēnárion	τὼ δηναρίω tṑ dēnaríō	τᾰ̀ δηνάριᾰ tằ dēnáriă
Vocative	δηνάριον dēnárion	δηναρίω dēnaríō	δηνάριᾰ dēnáriă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: δηνάριον (dinárion)
  • → Romanian: dinar
• → Aramaic: (perhaps through Koine Greek)

  Jewish Aramaic: דֵּינָרָא (dēnārā)

  • Classical Syriac: ܕܝܢܪܐ (dēnārā) (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Armenian: դենար (denar), դինար (dinar)
• → Old Georgian: დინარი (dinari)
• → Sanskrit: दीनार (dīnāra)

Further reading

• “δηνάριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• δηνάριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• δηνάριον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• G1220 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible