νήριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, it may belong to νηρόν (nērón, “fresh water”) because of the characteristic property of this plant to follow the course of brooks.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /nɛ̌ː.ri.on/ → /ˈni.ri.on/ → /ˈni.ri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /nɛ̌ː.ri.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈne̝.ri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈni.ri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈni.ri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈni.ri.on/

Noun

νήρῐον • (nḗrion) n (genitive νηρίου); second declension

1. oleander (Nerium oleander)

   Synonym: ῥοδόδενδρον (rhodódendron)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ νήρῐον; τοῦ νηρῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ νήρῐον tò nḗrion	τὼ νηρῐ́ω tṑ nēríō	τᾰ̀ νήρῐᾰ tà nḗria
Genitive	τοῦ νηρῐ́ου toû nēríou	τοῖν νηρῐ́οιν toîn nēríoin	τῶν νηρῐ́ων tôn nēríōn
Dative	τῷ νηρῐ́ῳ tôi nēríōi	τοῖν νηρῐ́οιν toîn nēríoin	τοῖς νηρῐ́οις toîs nēríois
Accusative	τὸ νήρῐον tò nḗrion	τὼ νηρῐ́ω tṑ nēríō	τᾰ̀ νήρῐᾰ tà nḗria
Vocative	νήρῐον nḗrion	νηρῐ́ω nēríō	νήρῐᾰ nḗria
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: nērium
  • → Translingual: Nerium

Further reading

• “νήριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• νήριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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