πυρός
Ancient Greek
Etymology 1
From Proto-Indo-European *puHr- (“corn”), compare Lithuanian pū̃ras, or rather – considering the original uncommonness of proper wheat in Classical Antiquity, πόλτος (póltos) and Latin puls meaning porridge of spelt, χῡλός (khūlós) gruel of barley – from Semitic, compare Hebrew בָּר (bar, “grain, especially of wheat”) and Arabic بُرّ (burr, “wheat”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pyː.rós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pyˈros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pyˈros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pyˈros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /piˈros/
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ πῡρός ho pūrós |
τὼ πῡρώ tṑ pūrṓ |
οἱ πῡροί hoi pūroí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ πῡροῦ toû pūroû |
τοῖν πῡροῖν toîn pūroîn |
τῶν πῡρῶν tôn pūrôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ πῡρῷ tôi pūrôi |
τοῖν πῡροῖν toîn pūroîn |
τοῖς πῡροῖς toîs pūroîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν πῡρόν tòn pūrón |
τὼ πῡρώ tṑ pūrṓ |
τοὺς πῡρούς toùs pūroús | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πῡρέ pūré |
πῡρώ pūrṓ |
πῡροί pūroí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- διόσπῡρος (dióspūros)
- (perhaps) πῡραμίς (pūramís)
Related terms
- πῡρήν (pūrḗn)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /py.rós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pyˈros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pyˈros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pyˈros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /piˈros/
Further reading
- πυρός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πυρός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πυρός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πυρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πυρός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G4450 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
References
- Brown, John Pairman (2000) Israel and Hellas (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft; 276), volume II, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, pages 9 seqq.
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