πυρήν
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Ancient Greek[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From πῡρός (pūrós, “grain of wheat”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pyː.rɛ̌ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pyˈre̝n/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pyˈrin/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pyˈrin/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /piˈrin/
Noun[edit]
πῡρήν • (pūrḗn) m (genitive πῡρῆνος); third declension
- (botany) kernel, pip, stone
- hard bone of fishes
- grain of frankincense
- round head of a probe
- name of a gem used as a votive offering
- growth under the chin of an animal
Inflection[edit]
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ πῡρήν ho pūrḗn |
τὼ πῡρῆνε tṑ pūrêne |
οἱ πῡρῆνες hoi pūrênes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πῡρῆνος toû pūrênos |
τοῖν πῡρήνοιν toîn pūrḗnoin |
τῶν πῡρήνων tôn pūrḗnōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πῡρῆνῐ tôi pūrêni |
τοῖν πῡρήνοιν toîn pūrḗnoin |
τοῖς πῡρῆσῐ / πῡρῆσῐν toîs pūrêsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν πῡρῆνᾰ tòn pūrêna |
τὼ πῡρῆνε tṑ pūrêne |
τοὺς πῡρῆνᾰς toùs pūrênas | ||||||||||
Vocative | πῡρήν pūrḗn |
πῡρῆνε pūrêne |
πῡρῆνες pūrênes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms[edit]
- ἀπῡ́ρηνος (apū́rēnos)
- πῡρηνοειδής (pūrēnoeidḗs)
- πῡρηνώδης (pūrēnṓdēs)
- πῡρηνᾰ́δες (pūrēnádes)
- πῡρηνῐ́δῐον (pūrēnídion)
- πῡρήνῐον (pūrḗnion)
Descendants[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “πυρήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πυρήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πυρήν 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[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.