πρῖνος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, from a substrate root common to Proto-Slavic *brinъ (“larch”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /prîː.nos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpri.nos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpri.nos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpri.nos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpri.nos/
Noun
πρῖνος • (prînos) f (genitive πρῑ́νου); second declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ πρῖνος hē prînos |
τὼ πρῑ́νω tṑ prī́nō |
αἱ πρῖνοι hai prînoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς πρῑ́νου tês prī́nou |
τοῖν πρῑ́νοιν toîn prī́noin |
τῶν πρῑ́νων tôn prī́nōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ πρῑ́νῳ tēî prī́nōi |
τοῖν πρῑ́νοιν toîn prī́noin |
ταῖς πρῑ́νοις taîs prī́nois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν πρῖνον tḕn prînon |
τὼ πρῑ́νω tṑ prī́nō |
τᾱ̀ς πρῑ́νους tā̀s prī́nous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πρῖνε prîne |
πρῑ́νω prī́nō |
πρῖνοι prînoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- θηλῠ́πρῑνος (thēlŭ́prīnos)
- πρῑνεύς (prīneús)
- πρῑνῐ́δῐον (prīnĭ́dĭon)
- πρῑ́νῐνος (prī́nĭnos)
- Πρῑνόεσσα (Prīnóessa)
- πρῑνώδης (prīnṓdēs)
Descendants
- → Latin: prīnus
Further reading
- “πρῖνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πρῖνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πρῖνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- πρῖνος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011