βρόκων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Related to βροκός (brokós, “stupid, dull”). Furnée connects these words with πρόκον (prókon, “numb”) and, more doubtfully, with Latin bargus (“without intelligence”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bró.kɔːn/ → /ˈβro.kon/ → /ˈvro.kon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bró.kɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbro.kon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβro.kon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvro.kon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvro.kon/

Noun

βρόκων • (brókōn)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: boorish person.

References

• “βρόκων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βρόκων 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
• Hesychius' Lexicon: β