φέρετρον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From φέρω (phérō, “I carry”) +‎ -τρον (-tron, instrument noun suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰé.re.tron/ → /ˈɸe.re.tron/ → /ˈfe.re.tron/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰé.re.tron/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰe.re.tron/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸe.re.tron/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfe.re.tron/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfe.re.tron/

Noun

φέρετρον • (phéretron) n (genitive φερέτρου); second declension

1. bier
2. litter
3. frame

Declension

Second declension of τὸ φέρετρον; τοῦ φερέτρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ φέρετρον tò phéretron	τὼ φερέτρω tṑ pherétrō	τᾰ̀ φέρετρᾰ tằ phéretră
Genitive	τοῦ φερέτρου toû pherétrou	τοῖν φερέτροιν toîn pherétroin	τῶν φερέτρων tôn pherétrōn
Dative	τῷ φερέτρῳ tôi pherétrōi	τοῖν φερέτροιν toîn pherétroin	τοῖς φερέτροις toîs pherétrois
Accusative	τὸ φέρετρον tò phéretron	τὼ φερέτρω tṑ pherétrō	τᾰ̀ φέρετρᾰ tằ phéretră
Vocative	φέρετρον phéretron	φερέτρω pherétrō	φέρετρᾰ phéretră
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: φέρετρο (féretro)
• → Latin: feretrum
  • Old French: fiertre (“large portable reliquary”)
    • Middle French: fiertre
    • → Old Irish: fert (“grave”)
    • → Middle Breton: fyertr (“bier”)
    • → Middle Dutch: fiertre (“reliquary”)
  • Old Italian: freto, fredo (Old Pavese)
  • → Catalan: fèretre
  • → Italian: feretro
  • → Polish: feretron
  • → Portuguese: féretro
  • → Spanish: féretro

Further reading

• “φέρετρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φέρετρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φέρετρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette