φθινόπωρον

From φθῐ́ν(ω) (phthín(ō), “decay, to be reduced”) + ὀπώρ(α) f (opṓr(a), “last part of summer; fruit”) + -ον n (-on).^[1][2]

φθινόπωρον • (phthinópōron) n (genitive φθῐνοπώρου); second declension

1. autumn

   Synonyms: μετόπωρον (metópōron), μεθόπωρον (methópōron), φθῐνομετόπωρον (phthinometópōron)

   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.42
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.117
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.31.1
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.18.3
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.100.2

• see: φθίνω (phthínō) and ὀπώρα (opṓra)

• → Greek: φθινόπωρο (fthinóporo) (learned)

• “φθινόπωρον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “φθινόπωρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φθινόπωρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φθινόπωρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette