ζάρος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /zdá.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈza.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈza.ros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈza.ros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈza.ros/
Noun
ζᾰ́ρος • (zắros) m (genitive ζᾰ́ρου); second declension
- unknown kind of bird of prey
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ ζᾰ́ρος ho zắros |
τὼ ζᾰ́ρω tṑ zắrō |
οἱ ζᾰ́ροι hoi zắroi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ζᾰ́ρου toû zắrou |
τοῖν ζᾰ́ροιν toîn zắroin |
τῶν ζᾰ́ρων tôn zắrōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ζᾰ́ρῳ tōî zắrōi |
τοῖν ζᾰ́ροιν toîn zắroin |
τοῖς ζᾰ́ροις toîs zắrois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν ζᾰ́ρον tòn zắron |
τὼ ζᾰ́ρω tṑ zắrō |
τοὺς ζᾰ́ρους toùs zắrous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ζᾰ́ρε zắre |
ζᾰ́ρω zắrō |
ζᾰ́ροι zắroi | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “ζάρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Gamkrelidze, Th. V., Ivanov, V. V. (1995) Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans. A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and Proto-Culture. Part I: The Text (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 80), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 800, compare Georgian ძერა (ʒera, “kite”), itself from Proto-Georgian-Zan *ʒ₁er- (“kite”)