πτερόν

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Hellenic *pterón, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ (“feather”). Related to πέτομαι (pétomai, “I fly”). Cognate with English feather.^[1]

πτερόν • (pterón) n (genitive πτεροῦ); second declension

Usually plural.
Along with ᾠόν (ōión), λουτρόν (loutrón) and ζυγόν (zugón), this is one of the very few neuter nouns that does not have a recessive accent.

Second declension of τὸ πτερόν; τοῦ πτεροῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πτερόν tò pterón	τὼ πτερώ tṑ pterṓ	τᾰ̀ πτερᾰ́ tằ pterắ
Genitive	τοῦ πτεροῦ toû pteroû	τοῖν πτεροῖν toîn pteroîn	τῶν πτερῶν tôn pterôn
Dative	τῷ πτερῷ tōî pterōî	τοῖν πτεροῖν toîn pteroîn	τοῖς πτεροῖς toîs pteroîs
Accusative	τὸ πτερόν tò pterón	τὼ πτερώ tṑ pterṓ	τᾰ̀ πτερᾰ́ tằ pterắ
Vocative	πτερόν pterón	πτερώ pterṓ	πτερᾰ́ pterắ
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πτερόν”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1248

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“πτερόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“πτερόν”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
πτερόν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
πτερόν in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“πτερόν”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- arrow idem, page 42.
- augury idem, page 52.
- bolt idem, page 88.
- feather idem, page 313.
- omen idem, page 572.
- pinion idem, page 614.
- plume idem, page 621.
- quill idem, page 667.
- shaft idem, page 760.
- sign idem, page 774.
- wing idem, page 981.
πτερόν, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011