μάρμαρος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- μάρμᾰρον (mármaron)
Etymology
Uncertain, possibly Pre-Greek. Perhaps from μαρμαίρω (marmaírō, “I sparkle”). Roberts suggests Proto-Indo-European *mer-, *mor-, *mr- (“to rub away, cause harm, to die”), in the sense of marble's fragility.[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /már.ma.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmar.ma.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmar.ma.ros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmar.ma.ros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmar.ma.ros/
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ μάρμᾰρος ho mármaros |
τὼ μαρμᾰ́ρω tṑ marmárō |
οἱ μάρμᾰροι hoi mármaroi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ μαρμᾰ́ρου toû marmárou |
τοῖν μαρμᾰ́ροιν toîn marmároin |
τῶν μαρμᾰ́ρων tôn marmárōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ μαρμᾰ́ρῳ tôi marmárōi |
τοῖν μαρμᾰ́ροιν toîn marmároin |
τοῖς μαρμᾰ́ροις toîs marmárois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν μάρμᾰρον tòn mármaron |
τὼ μαρμᾰ́ρω tṑ marmárō |
τοὺς μαρμᾰ́ρους toùs marmárous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μάρμᾰρε mármare |
μαρμᾰ́ρω marmárō |
μάρμᾰροι mármaroi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- μαρμάρινος (marmárinos)
Descendants
- Greek: μάρμαρο (mármaro)
- → Arabic: مرمر (marmar)
- → Bulgarian: мра́мор (mrámor)
- → Latin: marmor (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Armenian: մարմար (marmar), մարմարիոն (marmarion)
- Armenian: մարմար (marmar)
- → Old Georgian: მარმარილოჲ (marmariloy)
- Georgian: მარმარილო (marmarilo)
- → Bats: მარმარილო̆ (marmarilŏ)
- Georgian: მარმარილო (marmarilo)
- → Old East Slavic: мороморъ (moromorŭ), мироморъ (miromorŭ)
- → Persian: مرمر (marmar)
References
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014), “marmaros”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 844
Further reading
- μάρμαρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μάρμαρος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μάρμαρος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μάρμαρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- μάρμαρος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G3139 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- μάρμαρος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- 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
- Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), “մարմար”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 387a
- Boisacq, Émile (1916), “μάρμαρος”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque (in French), Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 611
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