Ἴστρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ís.tros/ → /ˈis.tros/ → /ˈis.tros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ís.tros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈis.tros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈis.tros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈis.tros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈis.tros/

Proper noun

Ἴστρος • (Ístros) m or f (genitive Ἴστρου); second declension

1. (feminine) Istros, Histria (an ancient city and Milesian colony; now Istria in Constanța County, Romania)
2. (masculine) Danube (a river in Europe; flowing 2850 kilometers from the confluence of the Breg and Brigach at Donaueschingen, Germany, into the Black Sea in Romania)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ, ἡ Ῐ̓́στρος; τοῦ, τῆς Ῐ̓́στρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ Ῐ̓́στρος ho, hē Ístros
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς Ῐ̓́στρου toû, tês Ístrou
Dative	τῷ, τῇ Ῐ̓́στρῳ tôi, têi Ístrōi
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν Ῐ̓́στρον tòn, tḕn Ístron
Vocative	Ῐ̓́στρε Ístre
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ἰστρίᾱ (Istríā)

Descendants

• Greek: Ίστρος (Ístros)
• Latin: Istrus

References

• “Ἴστρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ἴστρος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,008