ξυρόν

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ksu-ró-s (“razor”), from *ksew- (“to scrape, sharpen, shave”). Exact cognate with Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšurás (“dagger, razor”); see also the verbal formation from the same root ξύω (xúō, “to scrape”).^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ksy.rón/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ksyˈron/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ksyˈron/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ksyˈron/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ksiˈron/

Noun

ξῠρόν • (xŭrón) n (genitive ξῠροῦ); second declension

razor

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ξῠρόν; τοῦ ξῠροῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ξῠρόν tò xŭrón	τὼ ξῠρώ tṑ xŭrṓ	τᾰ̀ ξῠρᾰ́ tằ xŭrắ
Genitive	τοῦ ξῠροῦ toû xŭroû	τοῖν ξῠροῖν toîn xŭroîn	τῶν ξῠρῶν tôn xŭrôn
Dative	τῷ ξῠρῷ tōî xŭrōî	τοῖν ξῠροῖν toîn xŭroîn	τοῖς ξῠροῖς toîs xŭroîs
Accusative	τὸ ξῠρόν tò xŭrón	τὼ ξῠρώ tṑ xŭrṓ	τᾰ̀ ξῠρᾰ́ tằ xŭrắ
Vocative	ξῠρόν xŭrón	ξῠρώ xŭrṓ	ξῠρᾰ́ xŭrắ
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ξυράφιον (xuráphion)
ξυροδόκη (xurodókē)
ξυροθήκη (xurothḗkē)

ἐπὶ ξυροῦ ἵσταται ἀκμῆς ... ὄλεθρος ἠὲ βιῶναι (epì xuroû hístatai akmês ... ólethros ēè biônai, “death or life stands on a razor's edge”)

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ξυρόν”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1038-9

“ξυρόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ξυρόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“ξυρόν”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ξυρόν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ξυρόν in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
ξυρόν, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

[1] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ξυρόν”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1038-9

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