ἄχυρον
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- ἀχυρός (akhurós)
Etymology
[edit]According to Beekes: from Pre-Greek and related to ἄχωρ (ákhōr, “scurf”) (particularly, identical to the form ἄχορα (ákhora)) and to ἄχνη (ákhnē, “foam, froth”).[1] Note the Pre-Greek suffix *-ur-, similar to that in the synonym πίτῡρον (pítūron).[2] The traditional connection to ἀκοστή (akostḗ, “barley”), Latin acus (“bran, awn”), etc., from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-, must be rejected.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /á.kʰy.ron/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈa.kʰy.ron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.çy.ron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.çy.ron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.çi.ron/
Noun
[edit]ἄχῠρον • (ákhuron) n (genitive ἀχῠ́ρου); second declension
- (in the plural) chaff, bran, husks left after threshing or grinding
- Synonym: πίτυρον (píturon)
- (in the plural) slag from gold smelting
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ἄχῠρον tò ákhuron |
τὼ ἀχῠ́ρω tṑ akhúrō |
τᾰ̀ ἄχῠρᾰ tà ákhura | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ἀχῠ́ρου toû akhúrou |
τοῖν ἀχῠ́ροιν toîn akhúroin |
τῶν ἀχῠ́ρων tôn akhúrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ἀχῠ́ρῳ tôi akhúrōi |
τοῖν ἀχῠ́ροιν toîn akhúroin |
τοῖς ἀχῠ́ροις toîs akhúrois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ἄχῠρον tò ákhuron |
τὼ ἀχῠ́ρω tṑ akhúrō |
τᾰ̀ ἄχῠρᾰ tà ákhura | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἄχῠρον ákhuron |
ἀχῠ́ρω akhúrō |
ἄχῠρᾰ ákhura | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- ἀχυραγωγός (akhuragōgós)
- ἀχυράριος (akhurários)
- ἀχυρηγέω (akhurēgéō)
- ἀχυρικόν (akhurikón)
- ἀχύρινος (akhúrinos)
- ἀχύριος (akhúrios)
- ἀχυρῖτις (akhurîtis)
- ἀχυρμιά (akhurmiá)
- ἀχύρμιος (akhúrmios)
- ἀχυρμός (akhurmós)
- ἀχυροβολών (akhurobolṓn)
- ἀχυροδόκη (akhurodókē)
- ἀχυροθήκη (akhurothḗkē)
- ἀχυροπαροξία (akhuroparoxía)
- ἀχυροπράκτωρ (akhuropráktōr)
- ἀχυρότριψ (akhurótrips)
- ἀχυρόω (akhuróō)
- ἀχυροώδης (akhuroṓdēs)
- ἀχυροών (akhuroṓn)
- ἀχυροώσις (akhuroṓsis)
References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἄχυρα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 185–186
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2014) Stefan Norbruis, editor, Pre-Greek: Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 8
Further reading
[edit]- “ἄχυρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄχυρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἄχυρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄχυρον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
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- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the second declension