Ἀχέρων
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Pre-Greek. Connection to Proto-Balto-Slavic *éźera (“lake”) is dubious.[1][2] Folk etymology claims it from ὁ ἄχεα ῥέων (ho ákhea rhéōn, “the stream of woe”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.kʰé.rɔːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈkʰe.ron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈçe.ron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈçe.ron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈçe.ron/
Proper noun
Ἀχέρων • (Akhérōn) m (genitive Ἀχέροντος); third declension
- Acheron, a river in Epirus
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁ Ἀχέρων ho Akhérōn | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Ἀχέροντος toû Akhérontos | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Ἀχέροντῐ tôi Akhéronti | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Ἀχέροντᾰ tòn Akhéronta | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Ἀχέρον Akhéron | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Ἀχερόντιος (Akheróntios)
- Ἀχερούσιος (Akheroúsios)
- Ἀχερουσιάς (Akherousiás)
Descendants
References
- “Ἀχέρων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Ἀχέρων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Ἀχέρων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Ἀχέρων in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “Ἀχέρων”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 999
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “éźero”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 148
- ^ Nuova Italia (1972): Conoscenza religiosa, p. 26