βάλαγρος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• βάλερος (báleros), βαλῖνος (balînos), βαλλιρός (ballirós)

Etymology

Furnée compares βάρακος (bárakos, “kind of fish”); this is uncertain. Still, the word is certainly Pre-Greek, because of the variants.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bá.la.ɡros/ → /ˈβa.la.ɣros/ → /ˈva.la.ɣros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bá.la.ɡros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈba.la.ɡros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβa.la.ɣros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈva.la.ɣros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈva.la.ɣros/

Noun

βᾰ́λᾰγρος • (bálagros) m (genitive βᾰλᾰ́γρου); second declension

1. sort of freshwater fish, perhaps a kind of carp

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ βᾰ́λᾰγρος; τοῦ βᾰλᾰ́γρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βᾰ́λᾰγρος ho bálagros	τὼ βᾰλᾰ́γρω tṑ balágrō	οἱ βᾰ́λᾰγροι hoi bálagroi
Genitive	τοῦ βᾰλᾰ́γρου toû balágrou	τοῖν βᾰλᾰ́γροιν toîn balágroin	τῶν βᾰλᾰ́γρων tôn balágrōn
Dative	τῷ βᾰλᾰ́γρῳ tôi balágrōi	τοῖν βᾰλᾰ́γροιν toîn balágroin	τοῖς βᾰλᾰ́γροις toîs balágrois
Accusative	τὸν βᾰ́λᾰγρον tòn bálagron	τὼ βᾰλᾰ́γρω tṑ balágrō	τοὺς βᾰλᾰ́γρους toùs balágrous
Vocative	βᾰ́λᾰγρε bálagre	βᾰλᾰ́γρω balágrō	βᾰ́λᾰγροι bálagroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “βάλαγρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βάλαγρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βάλαγρος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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