βάκτρον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From late or dialectal Proto-Indo-European *bak- (“peg, club”) + -τρον (-tron). Cognate with Latin baculum.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bák.tron/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbak.tron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβak.tron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvak.tron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvak.tron/
Noun
βάκτρον • (báktron) n (genitive βάκτρου); second declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ βᾰ́κτρον tò bắktron |
τὼ βᾰ́κτρω tṑ bắktrō |
τᾰ̀ βᾰ́κτρᾰ tằ bắktră | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ βᾰ́κτρου toû bắktrou |
τοῖν βᾰ́κτροιν toîn bắktroin |
τῶν βᾰ́κτρων tôn bắktrōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ βᾰ́κτρῳ tōî bắktrōi |
τοῖν βᾰ́κτροιν toîn bắktroin |
τοῖς βᾰ́κτροις toîs bắktrois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ βᾰ́κτρον tò bắktron |
τὼ βᾰ́κτρω tṑ bắktrō |
τᾰ̀ βᾰ́κτρᾰ tằ bắktră | ||||||||||
| Vocative | βᾰ́κτρον bắktron |
βᾰ́κτρω bắktrō |
βᾰ́κτρᾰ bắktră | ||||||||||
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Related terms
- βακτηρίᾱ (baktēríā)
Further reading
- βάκτρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βάκτρον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- βάκτρον, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “βάκτρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Pape, Wilhelm (1914) “βάκτρον”, in Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.