τέραμνον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• τέρεμνον (téremnon)

Etymology

Connected with Proto-Indo-European *treb- (“dwelling, settlement”), a root found in Latin trabs (“beam”), Proto-Germanic *þurpą (“village”), Lithuanian trōbà (“farmhouse”). However, according to Beekes these words cannot be related and prefers to compare θεράπων (therápōn, “servant, maid”); according to him, because of the alternations θ/τ and μν/πν the word is Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /té.ram.non/ → /ˈte.ram.non/ → /ˈte.ram.non/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /té.ram.non/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈte.ram.non/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈte.ram.non/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈte.ram.non/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈte.ram.non/

Noun

τέραμνον • (téramnon) n (genitive τεράμνου); second declension

1. (in the plural) chamber, house

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ τέραμνον; τοῦ τεράμνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ τέραμνον tò téramnon	τὼ τεράμνω tṑ terámnō	τᾰ̀ τέραμνᾰ tà téramna
Genitive	τοῦ τεράμνου toû terámnou	τοῖν τεράμνοιν toîn terámnoin	τῶν τεράμνων tôn terámnōn
Dative	τῷ τεράμνῳ tôi terámnōi	τοῖν τεράμνοιν toîn terámnoin	τοῖς τεράμνοις toîs terámnois
Accusative	τὸ τέραμνον tò téramnon	τὼ τεράμνω tṑ terámnō	τᾰ̀ τέραμνᾰ tà téramna
Vocative	τέραμνον téramnon	τεράμνω terámnō	τέραμνᾰ téramna
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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