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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀραρίσκω (ararískō) + -θρον (-thron) (from Proto-Indo-European *-dʰrom).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ár.tʰron/ → /ˈar.θron/ → /ˈar.θron/
Noun
ᾰ̓́ρθρον • (árthron) n (genitive ᾰ̓́ρθρου); second declension
- (anatomy) joint
- Synonym: ἅψος (hápsos)
- (anatomy) limb
- articulation
- ἄρθρον τῆς φωνῆς (árthron tês phōnês) – vocal articulation
- (grammar) connecting word
- (grammar) an article: a category including the definite article ὁ (ho) and the basic relative pronoun ὅς (hós)
Usage notes
Note concerning definition #2, ἄρθρον (árthron) was sometimes used to refer to various body parts such as the ankles, eyes, mouth, genitals, etc.
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἄρθρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄρθρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἄρθρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄρθρον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- ἄρθρον 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.