σμῦρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from the same Pre-Greek root of μύραινα (múraina, “moray eel”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /zmŷː.ros/ → /ˈzmy.ros/ → /ˈzmi.ros/

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

Noun

σμῦρος • (smûros) m (genitive σμῡ́ρου); second declension

1. kind of eel

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ σμῦρος; τοῦ σμῡ́ρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σμῦρος ho smûros	τὼ σμῡ́ρω tṑ smū́rō	οἱ σμῦροι hoi smûroi
Genitive	τοῦ σμῡ́ρου toû smū́rou	τοῖν σμῡ́ροιν toîn smū́roin	τῶν σμῡ́ρων tôn smū́rōn
Dative	τῷ σμῡ́ρῳ tôi smū́rōi	τοῖν σμῡ́ροιν toîn smū́roin	τοῖς σμῡ́ροις toîs smū́rois
Accusative	τὸν σμῦρον tòn smûron	τὼ σμῡ́ρω tṑ smū́rō	τοὺς σμῡ́ρους toùs smū́rous
Vocative	σμῦρε smûre	σμῡ́ρω smū́rō	σμῦροι smûroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: smȳrus

Further reading

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