πανδοῦρα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πανδούρα (pandoúra), πάνδουρον (pándouron), πάνδουρος (pándouros), φάνδουρος (phándouros)

Etymology

According to Beekes, probably a Pre-Greek word.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pan.dûː.ra/ → /panˈdu.ra/ → /panˈdu.ra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pan.dûː.ra/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /panˈdu.ra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /panˈdu.ra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /panˈdu.ra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /panˈdu.ra/

Noun

πᾰνδοῦρᾰ • (pandoûra) f (genitive πᾰνδούρᾱς); first declension

1. pandura, a three-stringed lute

Inflection

First declension of ἡ πᾰνδοῦρᾰ; τῆς πᾰνδούρᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πᾰνδοῦρᾰ hē pandoûra	τὼ πᾰνδούρᾱ tṑ pandoúrā	αἱ πᾰνδοῦραι hai pandoûrai
Genitive	τῆς πᾰνδούρᾱς tês pandoúrās	τοῖν πᾰνδούραιν toîn pandoúrain	τῶν πᾰνδουρῶν tôn pandourôn
Dative	τῇ πᾰνδούρᾳ têi pandoúrāi	τοῖν πᾰνδούραιν toîn pandoúrain	ταῖς πᾰνδούραις taîs pandoúrais
Accusative	τὴν πᾰνδοῦρᾰν tḕn pandoûran	τὼ πᾰνδούρᾱ tṑ pandoúrā	τᾱ̀ς πᾰνδούρᾱς tā̀s pandoúrās
Vocative	πᾰνδοῦρᾰ pandoûra	πᾰνδούρᾱ pandoúrā	πᾰνδοῦραι pandoûrai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πανδουρίζω (pandourízō)
• πανδούριον (pandoúrion)
• πανδουρίς (pandourís)
• πανδουριστής (pandouristḗs)

 

Descendants

• → Late Latin: pandūra, mandola
  • → English: pandura
  • French: pandore
    • → English: pandore
  • Italian: mandola (see there for further descendants)
  • Venetian: mandòła
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: pandurium
  • Catalan: bandúrria
  • Spanish: bandurria
    • → English: bandurria, bandore
    • ? → English: banjo

Further reading

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