βραχύς

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Ancient GreekEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“short, brief”). Cognates include Sanskrit मुहुर् (múhur), मुहु (múhu), Avestan 𐬩𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬰𐬎𐬸𐬘𐬍𐬙𐬌 (mǝrǝzu.jīti, “short-lived”), Latin brevis and Old English miriġe (English merry).

PronunciationEdit

 

• IPA^(key): /bra.kʰýs/ → /βraˈxys/ → /vraˈçis/

• (5^th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /bra.kʰýs/
• (1^st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /braˈkʰys/
• (4^th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /βraˈxys/
• (10^th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /vraˈçys/
• (15^th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /vraˈçis/

AdjectiveEdit

βρᾰχῠ́ς • (brakhús) m (feminine βρᾰχεῖᾰ, neuter βρᾰχῠ́); first/third declension

1. (of time) short, brief
2. (of distance, height) short, small, little
3. few
4. (of importance) humble, insignificant
5. (grammar, of vowels) short

InflectionEdit

Declension of βρᾰχῠ́ς; βρᾰχεῖᾰ; βρᾰχῠ́

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		βρᾰχῠ́ς	βρᾰχεῖᾰ	βρᾰχῠ́		βρᾰχέε	βρᾰχείᾱ	βρᾰχέε		βρᾰχεῖς / βρᾰχέες	βρᾰχεῖαι	βρᾰχέᾰ
Genitive		βρᾰχέως	βρᾰχείᾱς	βρᾰχέως		βρᾰχέοιν	βρᾰχείαιν	βρᾰχέοιν		βρᾰχέων	βρᾰχειῶν	βρᾰχέων
Dative		βρᾰχεῖ / βρᾰχέῐ̈	βρᾰχείᾳ	βρᾰχεῖ / βρᾰ́χέῐ̈		βρᾰχέοιν	βρᾰχείαιν	βρᾰχέοιν		βρᾰχέσῐ(ν)	βρᾰχείαις	βρᾰχέσῐ(ν)
Accusative		βρᾰχῠ́ν	βρᾰχεῖᾰν	βρᾰχῠ́		βρᾰχέε	βρᾰχείᾱ	βρᾰχέε		βρᾰχεῖς	βρᾰχείᾱς	βρᾰχέᾰ
Vocative		βρᾰχῠ́	βρᾰχεῖᾰ	βρᾰχῠ́		βρᾰχέε	βρᾰχείᾱ	βρᾰχέε		βρᾰχεῖς / βρᾰχέες	βρᾰχεῖαι	βρᾰχέᾰ
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		βρᾰχέως				βρᾰχῠ́τερος				βρᾰχῠ́τᾰτος
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

AntonymsEdit

• μακρός (makrós), δολιχός (dolikhós)

Derived termsEdit

• βρᾰχεῖᾰ (brakheîa)
• βρᾰχῑ́ων (brakhī́ōn)
• βρᾰχῠδᾰ́κτῠλος (brakhudáktulos)
• τρῐ́βρᾰχῠς (tríbrakhus)

ReferencesEdit

• βραχύς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βραχύς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «βραχύς» 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
• «βραχύς» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2017)
• βραχύς in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G1024”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • brief idem, page 98.
  • compendious idem, page 150.
  • cursory idem, page 191.
  • diminutive idem, page 225.
  • distant idem, page 240.
  • faint idem, page 302.
  • fleet idem, page 327.
  • humble idem, page 409.
  • hurried idem, page 411.
  • inglorious idem, page 440.
  • insensible idem, page 444.
  • insignificant idem, page 445.
  • jejune idem, page 462.
  • languid idem, page 475.
  • limited idem, page 492.
  • little idem, page 495.
  • low idem, page 502.
  • meagre idem, page 519.
  • mean idem, page 519.
  • measured idem, page 521.
  • minor idem, page 531.
  • minute idem, page 532.
  • obscure idem, page 566.
  • paltry idem, page 590.
  • petty idem, page 609.
  • remote idem, page 694.
  • scant idem, page 737.
  • short idem, page 768.
  • slender idem, page 783.
  • slight idem, page 784.
  • small idem, page 786.
  • stunted idem, page 829.
  • succinct idem, page 834.
  • trifling idem, page 895.
  • trivial idem, page 896.
  • unimportant idem, page 922.