διάριον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• διάριν (diárin)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin diārium.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ðiˈa.ri.on/

• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðiˈa.ri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðiˈa.ri.on/

Noun

διάριον • (diárion) n (Byzantine)

1. diarium, day-wage, day's allowance

Descendants

• Pontic Greek: δά̤ριν (dä́rin), δά̤ρ' (dä́r'), δέρ' (dér')
• → Laz: გჲარი (gyari, “bread; food”), დჲარი (dyari), ჯარი (cari)
• → Svan: დია̈რ (diär, “bread”)
• →⇒ Mingrelian: დიარა (diara, “banquet, wedding”), დიარაფა (diarapa, “feeding, feed”), დიარუა (diarua)
• → Classical Syriac: ܕܝܪܝܢ (dyryn /⁠dīarīn⁠/), ܕܝܪܝܐ (dyryʾ, “stipend”)

References

• “διάριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• διάριον 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
• Gippert, Jost (1993) “Lateinisches Wortmaterial im Kaukasus”, in Gerhard Meiser, editor, Indogermanica et Italica : Festschrift für Helmut Rix zum 65. Geburtstag (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 72) (in German), Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität, pages 142–147
• Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900) “διάριον”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 369b