Ἴστρος

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Ἴστρος • (Ístros) m or f (genitive Ἴστρου); second declension

  1. (feminine) Istros, Histria (an ancient city and Milesian colony; now Istria in Constanța County, Romania)
  2. (masculine) Danube (a river in Europe; flowing 2850 kilometers from the confluence of the Breg and Brigach at Donaueschingen, Germany, into the Black Sea in Romania)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ, ἡ Ῐ̓́στρος; τοῦ, τῆς Ῐ̓́στρου (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ, ἡ Ῐ̓́στρος
ho, hē Ístros
Genitive τοῦ, τῆς Ῐ̓́στρου
toû, tês Ístrou
Dative τῷ, τῇ Ῐ̓́στρῳ
tôi, têi Ístrōi
Accusative τὸν, τὴν Ῐ̓́στρον
tòn, tḕn Ístron
Vocative Ῐ̓́στρε
Ístre
Notes:

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Greek: Ίστρος (Ístros)
  • Latin: Istrus

References

  • “Ἴστρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Ἴστρος”, 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 1,008
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