πέτευρον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

πέντευρον (pénteuron), πέταυρον (pétauron)

Etymology

Traditionally derived from πετάννυμι (petánnumi, “to spread out, open”). According to Beekes, the word could be of Pre-Greek origin, given the variation αυ-/ευ- and the prenasalization.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pé.teu̯.ron/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.tew.ron/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.te.βron/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.te.vron/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.te.vron/

Noun

πέτευρον • (péteuron) n (genitive πετεύρου); second declension

roosting perch for fowls
(in general) pole, spar, plank
springboard used by tumblers and acrobats
platform, stage
springe, trap
public notice board

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ πέτευρον; τοῦ πετεύρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πέτευρον tò péteuron	τὼ πετεύρω tṑ peteúrō	τᾰ̀ πέτευρᾰ tà péteura
Genitive	τοῦ πετεύρου toû peteúrou	τοῖν πετεύροιν toîn peteúroin	τῶν πετεύρων tôn peteúrōn
Dative	τῷ πετεύρῳ tôi peteúrōi	τοῖν πετεύροιν toîn peteúroin	τοῖς πετεύροις toîs peteúrois
Accusative	τὸ πέτευρον tò péteuron	τὼ πετεύρω tṑ peteúrō	τᾰ̀ πέτευρᾰ tà péteura
Vocative	πέτευρον péteuron	πετεύρω peteúrō	πέτευρᾰ péteura
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

πετευρίζομαι (peteurízomai)
πετεύριον (peteúrion)
πετευρισμός (peteurismós)
πετευριστέω (peteuristéō)
πετευριστήρ (peteuristḗr)
πετευριστής (peteuristḗs)

“πέτευρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“πέτευρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
πέτευρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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