πενθερά

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Feminine form of πενθερός (pentherós, “father-in-law”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pen.tʰe.rǎː/ → /pen.θeˈra/ → /pen.θeˈra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pen.tʰe.rǎː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pen.tʰeˈra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pen.θeˈra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pen.θeˈra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pen.θeˈra/

Noun

πενθερᾱ́ • (pentherā́) f (genitive πενθερᾱ́ς); first declension

1. mother-in-law

Inflection

First declension of ἡ πενθερᾱ́; τῆς πενθερᾶς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πενθερᾱ́ hē pentherā́	τὼ πενθερᾱ́ tṑ pentherā́	αἱ πενθεραί hai pentheraí
Genitive	τῆς πενθερᾶς tês pentherâs	τοῖν πενθεραῖν toîn pentheraîn	τῶν πενθερῶν tôn pentherôn
Dative	τῇ πενθερᾷ têi pentherâi	τοῖν πενθεραῖν toîn pentheraîn	ταῖς πενθεραῖς taîs pentheraîs
Accusative	τὴν πενθερᾱ́ν tḕn pentherā́n	τὼ πενθερᾱ́ tṑ pentherā́	τᾱ̀ς πενθερᾱ́ς tā̀s pentherā́s
Vocative	πενθερᾱ́ pentherā́	πενθερᾱ́ pentherā́	πενθεραί pentheraí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: πενθερά (pentherá)

Further reading

• πενθερά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• πενθερά in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• “πενθερά”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “πενθερά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πενθερά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• G3994 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • mother-in-law idem, page 542.

Greek

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pen.θeˈɾa/

Noun

πενθερά • (pentherá) f (plural πενθερές, masculine πενθερός)

1. Alternative form of πεθερά (petherá)

Declension

Declension of πενθερά

	singular	plural
nominative	πενθερά (pentherá)	πενθερές (pentherés)
genitive	πενθεράς (pentherás)	πενθερών (pentherón)
accusative	πενθερά (pentherá)	πενθερές (pentherés)
vocative	πενθερά (pentherá)	πενθερές (pentherés)