δῶρον

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *dṓron, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃rom. Cognate with Old Church Slavonic даръ (darŭ) and Albanian dhunti.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /dɔ̂ː.ron/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.ron/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈðo.ron/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈðo.ron/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈðo.ron/

Noun

δῶρον • (dôron) n (genitive δώρου); second declension

gift
hand's width

Declension

Second declension of τὸ δῶρον; τοῦ δώρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ δῶρον tò dôron	τὼ δώρω tṑ dṓrō	τᾰ̀ δῶρᾰ tà dôra
Genitive	τοῦ δώρου toû dṓrou	τοῖν δώροιν toîn dṓroin	τῶν δώρων tôn dṓrōn
Dative	τῷ δώρῳ tôi dṓrōi	τοῖν δώροιν toîn dṓroin	τοῖς δώροις toîs dṓrois
Accusative	τὸ δῶρον tò dôron	τὼ δώρω tṑ dṓrō	τᾰ̀ δῶρᾰ tà dôra
Vocative	δῶρον dôron	δώρω dṓrō	δῶρᾰ dôra
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Ἀθηνόδωρος (Athēnódōros)
Διόδωρος (Diódōros)
δωρεᾱ́ (dōreā́)
Εὔδωρος (Eúdōros)
ζείδωρος (zeídōros)
Ἡλιόδωρος (Hēliódōros)
Θεοδώρα (Theodṓra)
Θεόδωρος (Theódōros)
Ἰσίδωρος (Isídōros)
Κλυτοδώρα (Klutodṓra)
Μητρόδωρος (Mētródōros)
Ὀλυμπιόδωρος (Olumpiódōros)
Πανδώρα (Pandṓra)
Πολύδωρος (Polúdōros)
Πυθόδωρος (Puthódōros)

Related terms

δίδωμι (dídōmi, “I give”)
δωρέω (dōréō, “I begift”)

Descendants

Greek: δώρο (dóro)
→ Hebrew: דּוֹרוֹן (dorón)

Further reading

“δῶρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“δῶρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“δῶρον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
δῶρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
δῶρον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
δῶρον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
“δῶρον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G1435 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
δῶρον 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.
- alms idem, page 25.
- bounty idem, page 91.
- bribe idem, page 97.
- charity idem, page 126.
- dole idem, page 246.
- donation idem, page 247.
- gift idem, page 359.
- grant idem, page 369.
- offering idem, page 571.
- present idem, page 636.
- sop idem, page 794.
“δῶρον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011

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