Φάρος
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
Uncertain. In one proposed etymology the Ancient Greek name comes from the (unattested) Egyptian name for the island, corresponding to Coptic ⲫⲁⲣⲉϩ (phareh, “the guard”) = ⲫ- (ph-, “the”) + ⲁⲣⲉϩ (areh, “guard”);[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰá.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpʰa.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɸa.ros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈfa.ros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈfa.ros/
Proper noun edit
Φᾰ́ρος • (Pháros) f (genitive Φᾰ́ρου); second declension
- Pharos (a former island off Alexandria, Egypt)
Inflection edit
Proper noun edit
Φάρος • (Pháros) m
- The Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World[2]
Descendants edit
- Greek: φάρος (fáros)
- → Arabic: فاروس
- → Armenian: Փարոս (Pʻaros), փարոս (pʻaros)
- → English: Pharos
- → French: Phare
- → Hebrew: פארוס
- → Latin: Pharus, Pharos, pharus
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → English: Hvar
References edit
Further reading edit
- “Φάρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Φάρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Φάρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[3], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021