Ἴστρος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ís.tros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈis.tros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈis.tros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈis.tros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈis.tros/
Proper noun
Ἴστρος • (Ístros) m or f (genitive Ἴστρου); second declension
- (feminine) Istros, Histria (an ancient city and Milesian colony in modern Constanța County, Romania; modern Istria)
- (masculine) Danube (a river in Europe; flowing 2850 kilometers from the confluence of the Breg and Brigach at Donaueschingen, Germany, into the Black Sea in Romania)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁ, ἡ Ῐ̓́στρος ho, hē Ĭ́stros | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ, τῆς Ῐ̓́στρου toû, tês Ĭ́strou | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ, τῇ Ῐ̓́στρῳ tōî, tēî Ĭ́strōi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν, τὴν Ῐ̓́στρον tòn, tḕn Ĭ́stron | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Ῐ̓́στρε Ĭ́stre | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Ἰστρίᾱ (Istríā)
Descendants
- Greek: Ίστρος (Ístros)
- Latin: Istrus
References
- “Ἴστρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Ἴστρος”, 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, page 1,008