πρῷρα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πρῴρη (prṓirē) — Epic, Ionic

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *prṓwařřa, from Proto-Indo-European *préh₃wr̥yh₂ (“forepart (of a ship)”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /prɔ̂ːi̯.ra/ → /ˈpro.ra/ → /ˈpro.ra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /prɔ̂ːi̯.ra/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.ra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.ra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.ra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.ra/

Noun

πρῷρᾰ • (prôiră) f (genitive πρῴρᾱς); first declension

1. The front part of a ship; bow, prow

Inflection

First declension of ἡ πρῷρᾰ; τῆς πρῴρᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πρῷρᾰ hē prôiră	τὼ πρῴρᾱ tṑ prṓirā	αἱ πρῷραι hai prôirai
Genitive	τῆς πρῴρᾱς tês prṓirās	τοῖν πρῴραιν toîn prṓirain	τῶν πρῳρῶν tôn prōirôn
Dative	τῇ πρῴρᾳ têi prṓirāi	τοῖν πρῴραιν toîn prṓirain	ταῖς πρῴραις taîs prṓirais
Accusative	τὴν πρῷρᾰν tḕn prôirăn	τὼ πρῴρᾱ tṑ prṓirā	τᾱ̀ς πρῴρᾱς tā̀s prṓirās
Vocative	πρῷρᾰ prôiră	πρῴρᾱ prṓirā	πρῷραι prôirai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κυανόπρῳρος (kuanóprōiros)

Descendants

• Byzantine Greek: πλώρα (plṓra)
  • Greek: πλώρα (plóra)
• → Greek: πρώρα (próra)
• → Latin: prōra (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “πρῷρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πρῷρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πρῷρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bows idem, page 92.
  • prow idem, page 655.
• “πρῷρα”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011