νεῦρον

From Proto-Indo-European *snḗh₁wr̥ (“band, sinew”). Cognate with Latin nervus, English sinew, Sanskrit स्नावन् (snā́van, “tendon, muscle, sinew”), Old Armenian նեարդ (neard), and Avestan 𐬯𐬥𐬁𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬭𐬆 (snāuuar^ə).^[1]

νεῦρον • (neûron) n (genitive νεύρου); second declension

1. sinew, tendon
2. cord, of a slingshot, bowstring
3. strength, vigor
4. plant fiber
5. nerve
6. penis

• νευρά (neurá)

• → English: neuro-, neuron
• → French: neuro-
• Greek: νεύρο (névro)
• → Russian: нейро́н (nejrón)

• “νεῦρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “νεῦρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “νεῦρον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• νεῦρον 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
• νεῦρον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• νεῦρον 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.
  • fibre idem, page 317.
  • muscle idem, page 547.
  • nerve idem, page 556.
  • sinew idem, page 777.