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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-er-os, from *bʰendʰ- (“to tie; bond, band”) and formally almost completely agreeing with Lithuanian beñdras (“common, shared”); compare also Sanskrit बन्धु (bandhu, “relative, kindred”). The oxytone accentuation of this word is based on the model of ἑκυρός (hekurós, “father-in-law”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pen.tʰe.rós/ → /pen.θeˈros/ → /pen.θeˈros/
Noun
πενθερός • (pentherós) m (genitive πενθεροῦ); second declension
- father-in-law
- Synonym: ἑκυρός (hekurós)
- (in the plural) parents-in-law
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
References
Further reading
- “πενθερός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πενθερός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πενθερός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πενθερός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πενθερός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
Greek
Noun
πενθερός • (pentherós) m (plural πενθεροί, feminine πενθερά)
- Alternative form of πεθερός (petherós)
Declension