φοῦρνος

See also: φούρνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Latin furnus, from Proto-Italic *fornos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰr̥-nós, from *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸur.nos/ → /ˈfur.nos/

• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸur.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfur.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfur.nos/

Noun

φοῦρνος • (phoûrnos) m (genitive φούρνου); second declension

1. (Koine) oven
   • 250 CE – 350 CE, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 3.113c

Declension

Second declension of ὁ φοῦρνος; τοῦ φούρνου (Koine)

Case / #	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ὁ φοῦρνος ho phoûrnos	οἱ φοῦρνοι hoi phoûrnoi
Genitive	τοῦ φούρνου toû phoúrnou	τῶν φούρνων tôn phoúrnōn
Dative	τῷ φούρνῳ tôi phoúrnōi	τοῖς φούρνοις toîs phoúrnois
Accusative	τὸν φοῦρνον tòn phoûrnon	τοὺς φούρνους toùs phoúrnous
Vocative	φοῦρνε phoûrne	φοῦρνοι phoûrnoi

Descendants

• Greek: φούρνος (foúrnos)
  • → Turkish: fırın
• → Aramaic:

  Hebrew script: פורנא (fūrnāʾ)

  Syriac script: ܦܘܪܢܐ (fūrnāʾ)

  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦܘܼܪܢܵܐ (purnā)
  • → Arabic: فرن (furn)
    • Hijazi Arabic: فرن (furun)
    • Maltese: forn
    • Turkish: fırın
• → Old Armenian: փուռն (pʻuṙn)
  • Armenian: փուռ (pʻuṙ)
• → Georgian: ფურნე (purne)
  • → Mingrelian: ფურნე (purne)
• ⇒ Byzantine Greek: φουρνίν (phournín)
  • Pontic Greek: φουρνίν (fournín), φουρνί (fourní)
    • → Laz: ჶურნი (furni), ჶუნნი (funni)

Further reading

• φοῦρνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “φοῦρνος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “φοῦρνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900) “φοῦρνος”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 1151