δρίος

See also: Δρίος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Pedersen compared Old Irish driss (“bramble, thornbush”); however, this is uncertain. The word is often combined with δρῦς (drûs, “wood, oak”), but the formation remains unclear in any case.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /drí.os/ → /ˈðri.os/ → /ˈðri.os/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /drí.os/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈdri.os/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈðri.os/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈðri.os/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈðri.os/

Noun

δρῐ́ος • (dríos) n (genitive δρῐ́εος); third declension

1. copse, thicket

   Synonym: λόχμη (lókhmē)

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ δρῐ́ος; τοῦ δρῐ́εος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ δρῐ́ος tò dríos	τὼ δρῐ́εε tṑ dríee	τᾰ̀ δρῐ́εᾰ tà dríea
Genitive	τοῦ δρῐ́εος toû dríeos	τοῖν δρῐέοιν toîn driéoin	τῶν δρῐέων tôn driéōn
Dative	τῷ δρῐ́εῐ̈ tôi dríeï	τοῖν δρῐέοιν toîn driéoin	τοῖς δρῐ́εσῐ / δρῐ́εσῐν toîs dríesi(n)
Accusative	τὸ δρῐ́ος tò dríos	τὼ δρῐ́εε tṑ dríee	τᾰ̀ δρῐ́εᾰ tà dríea
Vocative	δρῐ́ος dríos	δρῐ́εε dríee	δρῐ́εᾰ dríea
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• δρῐών (driṓn)

Further reading

• “δρίος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• δρίος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• δρίος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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