πρῷρα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *prṓwařřa, from Proto-Indo-European *préh₃wr̥yh₂.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /prɔ̂ːi̯.ra/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpro.ra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpro.ra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpro.ra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpro.ra/
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ πρῷρᾰ hē prôira |
τὼ πρῴρᾱ tṑ prṓirā |
αἱ πρῷραι hai prôirai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς πρῴρᾱς tês prṓirās |
τοῖν πρῴραιν toîn prṓirain |
τῶν πρῳρῶν tôn prōirôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ πρῴρᾳ têi prṓirāi |
τοῖν πρῴραιν toîn prṓirain |
ταῖς πρῴραις taîs prṓirais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν πρῷρᾰν tḕn prôiran |
τὼ πρῴρᾱ tṑ prṓirā |
τᾱ̀ς πρῴρᾱς tā̀s prṓirās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πρῷρᾰ prôira |
πρῴρᾱ prṓirā |
πρῷραι prôirai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κυανόπρῳρος (kuanóprōiros)
Descendants
- Byzantine Greek: πλώρα (plṓra)
- Greek: πλώρα (plóra)
- → Greek: πρώρα (próra)
- → Latin: prōra (see there for further descendants)
References
- “πρῷρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πρῷρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πρῷρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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