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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *dṓron, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃rom (“gift”). Cognate with Old Armenian տուր (tur), Old Church Slavonic даръ (darŭ), and Albanian dhunti.[1]
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Particularly: “The "hand's width" meaning is generally considered etymologically separate from the "gift" meaning, and is of uncertain origin.[2]”
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɔ̂ː.ron/ → /ˈðo.ron/ → /ˈðo.ron/
Noun
δῶρον • (dôron) n (genitive δώρου); second declension
- gift
- hand's width
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “δῶρον 1”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 363
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “δῶρον 2”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 363
Further reading
- “δῶρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “δῶρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “δῶρον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- δῶρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- δῶρον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- δῶρον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “δῶρον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G1435 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- δῶρον in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- alms idem, page 25.
- bounty idem, page 91.
- bribe idem, page 97.
- charity idem, page 126.
- dole idem, page 246.
- donation idem, page 247.
- gift idem, page 359.
- grant idem, page 369.
- offering idem, page 571.
- present idem, page 636.
- sop idem, page 794.
- “δῶρον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011