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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *nekʷʰrós, from Proto-Indo-European *negʷʰrós. Cognates include Latin nefrōnes and Proto-Germanic *neurô.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ne.pʰrós/ → /neˈɸros/ → /neˈfros/
Noun
νεφρός • (nephrós) m (genitive νεφροῦ); second declension
- (anatomy, usually in the plural) kidney
- (euphemistic) testicle
- mind
Inflection
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Descendants
Further reading
- “νεφρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “νεφρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- νεφρός 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
- G3510 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- νεφρός 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
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Greek
Noun
νεφρός • (nefrós) m (plural νεφροί)
- (formal) form of νεφρό n (nefró, “kidney”)
Declension