δάκρυον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Back-formation from δάκρυα (dákrua), originally the plural of δάκρυ (dákru).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /dá.kry.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈda.kry.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈða.kry.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈða.kry.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈða.kri.on/
Noun
δᾰ́κρῠον • (dắkrŭon) n (genitive δᾰκρῠ́ου); second declension
- alternative form of δᾰ́κρῠ (dắkrŭ, “tear”)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ δᾰ́κρῠον tò dắkrŭon |
τὼ δᾰκρῠ́ω tṑ dăkrŭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ δᾰ́κρῠᾰ tằ dắkrŭă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ δᾰκρῠ́ου toû dăkrŭ́ou |
τοῖν δᾰκρῠ́οιν toîn dăkrŭ́oin |
τῶν δᾰκρῠ́ων tôn dăkrŭ́ōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ δᾰκρῠ́ῳ tōî dăkrŭ́ōi |
τοῖν δᾰκρῠ́οιν toîn dăkrŭ́oin |
τοῖς δᾰκρῠ́οις toîs dăkrŭ́ois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ δᾰ́κρῠον tò dắkrŭon |
τὼ δᾰκρῠ́ω tṑ dăkrŭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ δᾰ́κρῠᾰ tằ dắkrŭă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | δᾰ́κρῠον dắkrŭon |
δᾰκρῠ́ω dăkrŭ́ō |
δᾰ́κρῠᾰ dắkrŭă | ||||||||||
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- Epic oblique transnumeral form: δακρυόφι (dakruóphi)
Derived terms
- δακρυόεις (dakruóeis)
Further reading
- “δάκρυον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “δάκρυον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “δάκρυον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- δάκρυον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- δάκρυον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- δάκρυον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- “δάκρυον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G1144 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- tear idem, page 859.