παλίουρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

A connection with οὐρά (ourá, “tail”) makes little sense, nor it is to be taken with οὖρον (oûron, “urine”). The word is most probably Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pa.lí.uː.ros/ → /paˈli.u.ros/ → /paˈli.u.ros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pa.lí.uː.ros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /paˈli.u.ros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /paˈli.u.ros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /paˈli.u.ros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /paˈli.u.ros/

Noun

πᾰλίουρος • (pălíouros) m or f (genitive πᾰλῐούρου); second declension

1. Christ's thorn (Paliurus spina-christi)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ, ἡ πᾰλῐ́ουρος; τοῦ, τῆς πᾰλῐούρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ πᾰλῐ́ουρος ho, hē pălĭ́ouros	τὼ πᾰλῐούρω tṑ pălĭoúrō	οἱ, αἱ πᾰλῐ́ουροι hoi, hai pălĭ́ouroi
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς πᾰλῐούρου toû, tês pălĭoúrou	τοῖν πᾰλῐούροιν toîn pălĭoúroin	τῶν πᾰλῐούρων tôn pălĭoúrōn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ πᾰλῐούρῳ tôi, têi pălĭoúrōi	τοῖν πᾰλῐούροιν toîn pălĭoúroin	τοῖς, ταῖς πᾰλῐούροις toîs, taîs pălĭoúrois
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν πᾰλῐ́ουρον tòn, tḕn pălĭ́ouron	τὼ πᾰλῐούρω tṑ pălĭoúrō	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς πᾰλῐούρους toùs, tā̀s pălĭoúrous
Vocative	πᾰλῐ́ουρε pălĭ́oure	πᾰλῐούρω pălĭoúrō	πᾰλῐ́ουροι pălĭ́ouroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πᾰλῐούρῐνος (pălĭoúrĭnos)
• πᾰλῐουρίς (pălĭourís)
• πᾰλῐουροφόρος (pălĭourophóros)

Descendants

• → Latin: paliūrus
  • → Translingual: Paliurus

Further reading

• “παλίουρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• παλίουρος 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