νήριον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, it may belong to νηρόν (nērón, “fresh water”) because of the characteristic property of this plant to follow the course of brooks.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /nɛ̌ː.ri.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈne̝.ri.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈni.ri.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈni.ri.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈni.ri.on/
Noun
νήρῐον • (nḗrion) n (genitive νηρίου); second declension
- oleander (Nerium oleander)
- Synonym: ῥοδόδενδρον (rhodódendron)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ νήρῐον tò nḗrion |
τὼ νηρῐ́ω tṑ nēríō |
τᾰ̀ νήρῐᾰ tà nḗria | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ νηρῐ́ου toû nēríou |
τοῖν νηρῐ́οιν toîn nēríoin |
τῶν νηρῐ́ων tôn nēríōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ νηρῐ́ῳ tôi nēríōi |
τοῖν νηρῐ́οιν toîn nēríoin |
τοῖς νηρῐ́οις toîs nēríois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ νήρῐον tò nḗrion |
τὼ νηρῐ́ω tṑ nēríō |
τᾰ̀ νήρῐᾰ tà nḗria | ||||||||||
| Vocative | νήρῐον nḗrion |
νηρῐ́ω nēríō |
νήρῐᾰ nḗria | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “νήριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- νήριον 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
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