ζάρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /zdá.ros/ → /ˈza.ros/ → /ˈza.ros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /zdá.ros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈza.ros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈza.ros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈza.ros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈza.ros/

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Noun

ζᾰ́ρος • (zắros) m (genitive ζᾰ́ρου); second declension

1. unknown kind of bird of prey

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ζᾰ́ρος; τοῦ ζᾰ́ρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ζᾰ́ρος ho zắros	τὼ ζᾰ́ρω tṑ zắrō	οἱ ζᾰ́ροι hoi zắroi
Genitive	τοῦ ζᾰ́ρου toû zắrou	τοῖν ζᾰ́ροιν toîn zắroin	τῶν ζᾰ́ρων tôn zắrōn
Dative	τῷ ζᾰ́ρῳ tôi zắrōi	τοῖν ζᾰ́ροιν toîn zắroin	τοῖς ζᾰ́ροις toîs zắrois
Accusative	τὸν ζᾰ́ρον tòn zắron	τὼ ζᾰ́ρω tṑ zắrō	τοὺς ζᾰ́ρους toùs zắrous
Vocative	ζᾰ́ρε zắre	ζᾰ́ρω zắrō	ζᾰ́ροι zắroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ζάρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Gamkrelidze, Th. V., Ivanov, V. V. (1995) Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans. A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and Proto-Culture. Part I: The Text (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 80), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 800, compare Georgian ძერა (ʒera, “kite”), itself from Proto-Georgian-Zan *ʒ₁er- (“kite”)