αὔριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From *αὖρι (*aûri), the old locative of Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-r-, from *h₂ews- (“dawn”). Cognate with ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr, “mist, air”), ἠώς (ēṓs, “daybreak, dawn”), and perhaps ἦρι (êri, “early in the morning”); outside Greek, compare Lithuanian aušrà (“dawn”) and Sanskrit उस्र (usrá, “morning light, daybreak”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ǎu̯.ri.on/ → /ˈa.βri.on/ → /ˈa.vri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ǎu̯.ri.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈaw.ri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.βri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.vri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈa.vri.on/

Adverb

αὔριον • (aúrion)

1. tomorrow
2. soon

Descendants

• Greek: αύριο (ávrio)

See also

• χθές (khthés)
• σήμερον (sḗmeron)

Further reading

• “αὔριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “αὔριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “αὔριον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• αὔριον 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
• αὔριον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• αὔριον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G839 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • morrow idem, page 541.
  • to-morrow idem, page 878.