πράσον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Traditionally connected with Latin porrum (“leek”) and derived from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥so- (“leek”). But Beekes does not rule out a Pre-Greek origin.

Noun

πρᾰ́σον • (práson) n (genitive πρᾰ́σου); second declension

  1. leek, Allium ampeloprasum (syn. Allium porrum)

Declension
Second declension of τὸ πρᾰ́σον; τοῦ πρᾰ́σου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τὸ πρᾰ́σον
tò práson		 τὼ πρᾰ́σω
tṑ prásō		 τᾰ̀ πρᾰ́σᾰ
tà prása
Genitive τοῦ πρᾰ́σου
toû prásou		 τοῖν πρᾰ́σοιν
toîn prásoin		 τῶν πρᾰ́σων
tôn prásōn
Dative τῷ πρᾰ́σῳ
tôi prásōi		 τοῖν πρᾰ́σοιν
toîn prásoin		 τοῖς πρᾰ́σοις
toîs prásois
Accusative τὸ πρᾰ́σον
tò práson		 τὼ πρᾰ́σω
tṑ prásō		 τᾰ̀ πρᾰ́σᾰ
tà prása
Vocative πρᾰ́σον
práson		 πρᾰ́σω
prásō		 πρᾰ́σᾰ
prása
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • ἀμπελόπρασον (ampelóprason)
  • πράσινος (prásinos)
  • πράσιος (prásios)

Descendants
  • Greek: πράσο (práso)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: پراصا‎ (prasa), پراصه‎ (prasa)
      • Turkish: pırasa
      • → Armenian: փըրասա (pʿərasa), փըռասա (pʿəṙasa)
      • → Middle Armenian: փռասա (pʿṙasa)
  • → Abkhaz: а-прасқьиа (ā-ṗrāsk̍iā)
  • → Albanian: presh
  • → Coptic: ⲡⲗⲁⲥⲥⲁ (plassa)
  • → Georgian: პრასა (ṗrasa)
    • → Bats: პრას (ṗras)
    • → Ossetian: прасӕ (prasæ), праса (prasa)
  • → Laz: პრასა (ṗrasa), პრასკა (ṗrasḳa), პროსკჲა́ (ṗrosḳyá), პოსკჲა́ (ṗosḳyá)
  • → Old Armenian: պրաս (pras), պրախ (prax), պրասխ (prasx)
    • Middle Armenian: պռաս (pṙas)
    • Armenian: պրաս (pras)
  • → Old Church Slavonic: прасъ (prasŭ), празъ (prazŭ)

References
  • πράσον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • πράσον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • πράσον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
    • leek idem, page 484.
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “պրաս”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 114a
  • Walde, Alois (1927), Pokorny, Julius, editor, Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der indogermanischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Berlin: de Gruyter, page 84
  • Boisacq, Émile (1916), “πράσον”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque (in French), Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 810
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1229
  • Walde, Alois (1910), “porrum, porrus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 2nd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, pages 601–602

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