Φάρος

See also: φάρος and φᾶρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain. In one proposed etymology the Ancient Greek name comes from the (unattested) Egyptian name for the island, corresponding to Coptic ⲫⲁⲣⲉϩ (phareh, “the guard”) = ⲫ- (ph-, “the”) +‎ ⲁⲣⲉϩ (areh, “guard”);[1]

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Φᾰ́ρος • (Phắros) f (genitive Φᾰ́ρου); second declension

  1. Pharos (a former island off Alexandria, Egypt)

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ Φᾰ́ρος; τῆς Φᾰ́ρου (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Φᾰ́ρος
hē Phắros
Genitive τῆς Φᾰ́ρου
tês Phắrou
Dative τῇ Φᾰ́ρῳ
tēî Phắrōi
Accusative τὴν Φᾰ́ρον
tḕn Phắron
Vocative Φᾰ́ρε
Phắre
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Proper noun

Φάρος • (Pháros) m

  1. The Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World[2]

Descendants

  • Greek: φάρος (fáros)
  • → Arabic: فاروس
  • → Armenian: Փարոս (Pʻaros), փարոս (pʻaros)
  • → English: Pharos
  • → French: Phare
  • → Hebrew: פארוס
  • → Latin: Pharus, Pharos, pharus
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Latin script: Hvar
    Cyrillic script: Хвар

References

  1. ^ Paul Ernst Jablonski (1804) Opuscula‎[1], volume 1, Leyden: A. & J. Honkoop, page 377 ff.
  2. ^ Strabo (no later than 23 CE) “Chapter XVII, §§ 6 & 9”, in Geographica‎[2].

Further reading

  • “Φάρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Φάρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “Φάρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎[3], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021
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