πάγουρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Usually interpreted as derived from πάγος (págos, “crag, rock”) +‎ οὐρά (ourá, “tail”). However, this traditional etymology is unconvincing, like in σκίουρος (skíouros, “squirrel”). More probably this is a Pre-Greek word. Furnée compares also φάγρος (phágros, “red porgy”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pá.ɡuː.ros/ → /ˈpa.ɣu.ros/ → /ˈpa.ɣu.ros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pá.ɡuː.ros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ɡu.ros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ɣu.ros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ɣu.ros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ɣu.ros/

Noun

πᾰ́γουρος • (pắgouros) m (genitive πᾰγούρου); second declension

1. crab

   Synonym: καρκίνος (karkínos)

Declension

Second declension of ὁ πᾰ́γουρος; τοῦ πᾰγούρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πᾰ́γουρος ho pắgouros	τὼ πᾰγούρω tṑ păgoúrō	οἱ πᾰ́γουροι hoi pắgouroi
Genitive	τοῦ πᾰγούρου toû păgoúrou	τοῖν πᾰγούροιν toîn păgoúroin	τῶν πᾰγούρων tôn păgoúrōn
Dative	τῷ πᾰγούρῳ tôi păgoúrōi	τοῖν πᾰγούροιν toîn păgoúroin	τοῖς πᾰγούροις toîs păgoúrois
Accusative	τὸν πᾰ́γουρον tòn pắgouron	τὼ πᾰγούρω tṑ păgoúrō	τοὺς πᾰγούρους toùs păgoúrous
Vocative	πᾰ́γουρε pắgoure	πᾰγούρω păgoúrō	πᾰ́γουροι pắgouroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: πάγουρος (págouros)
• → Latin: pagūrus
• → Translingual: Pagurus
• → Ottoman Turkish: پاغوریه (pağurya)
  • → Turkish: bağurya, bağırya, bavurya, pavurya

Further reading

• “πάγουρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πάγουρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πάγουρος 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

Greek

Noun

πάγουρος • (págouros) m

1. hermit crab
2. (colloquial) crab

Declension

Declension of πάγουρος

	singular	plural
nominative	πάγουρος (págouros)	πάγουροι (págouroi)
genitive	πάγουρου (págourou) παγούρου (pagoúrou)	πάγουρων (págouron) παγούρων (pagoúron)
accusative	πάγουρο (págouro)	πάγουρους (págourous) παγούρους (pagoúrous)
vocative	πάγουρε (págoure)	πάγουροι (págouroi)

Second forms are formal. 

Synonyms

• ερημίτης κάβουρας m (erimítis kávouras)

See also

• κάβουρας m (kávouras, “crab”)