ἄροτρον

From Proto-Hellenic *árotron, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥h₃trom, from *h₂erh₃- +‎ *-trom; equivalent to ἀρόω (aróō, “to plough”) +‎ -τρον (-tron, instrument noun suffix). Cognates include Latin arātrum, Old Armenian արաւր (arawr) and Old Norse arðr (→ modern English ard).

ᾰ̓́ροτρον • (árotron) n (genitive ᾰ̓ρότρου); second declension

1. plough
   1. (figuratively, in the plural) the organs of generation

• ἀρόω (aróō)

• Greek: άροτρο (árotro)

• “ἄροτρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἄροτρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἄροτρον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἄροτρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄροτρον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἄροτρον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἄροτρον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G723 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • plough idem, page 621.