δηλητήρ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From δηλέομαι (dēléomai, “to destroy”) + -τήρ (-tḗr).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /dɛː.lɛː.tɛ̌ːr/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /de̝.le̝ˈte̝r/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ði.liˈtir/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ði.liˈtir/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ði.liˈtir/
Noun
δηλητήρ • (dēlētḗr) m (genitive δηλητῆρος); third declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ δηλητήρ ho dēlētḗr |
τὼ δηλητῆρε tṑ dēlētêre |
οἱ δηλητῆρες hoi dēlētêres | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ δηλητῆρος toû dēlētêros |
τοῖν δηλητήροιν toîn dēlētḗroin |
τῶν δηλητήρων tôn dēlētḗrōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ δηλητῆρῐ tōî dēlētêrĭ |
τοῖν δηλητήροιν toîn dēlētḗroin |
τοῖς δηλητῆρσῐ / δηλητῆρσῐν toîs dēlētêrsĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν δηλητῆρᾰ tòn dēlētêră |
τὼ δηλητῆρε tṑ dēlētêre |
τοὺς δηλητῆρᾰς toùs dēlētêrăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | δηλητήρ dēlētḗr |
δηλητῆρε dēlētêre |
δηλητῆρες dēlētêres | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- δηλητήρῐος (dēlētḗrĭos)
Descendants
- → German: deletär
Further reading
- “δηλητήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “δηλητήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- δηλητήρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- δηλητήρ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- δηλητήρ 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