ἀρή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain. The word has been connected with ἄρος (áros, “involuntary damage”), ἀπαρές (aparés, “healthy”), ἀρειή (areiḗ, “cursing, threatening”) and also with Ἄρης (Árēs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.rɛ̌ː/ → /aˈri/ → /aˈri/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.rɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈre̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈri/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈri/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈri/

Noun

ἀρή • (arḗ) f (genitive ἀρῆς); first declension

1. bane, ruin, harm
2. prayer, imprecation (Ionic form of ἀρά)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἀρή; τῆς ἀρῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀρή hē arḗ	τὼ ἀρᾱ́ tṑ arā́	αἱ ἀραί hai araí
Genitive	τῆς ἀρῆς tês arês	τοῖν ἀραῖν toîn araîn	τῶν ἀρῶν tôn arôn
Dative	τῇ ἀρῇ têi arêi	τοῖν ἀραῖν toîn araîn	ταῖς ἀραῖς taîs araîs
Accusative	τὴν ἀρήν tḕn arḗn	τὼ ἀρᾱ́ tṑ arā́	τᾱ̀ς ἀρᾱ́ς tā̀s arā́s
Vocative	ἀρή arḗ	ἀρᾱ́ arā́	ἀραί araí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ἀρή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀρή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀρή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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