πεμφρηδών

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The suffix is the same of ἀνθρηδών (anthrēdṓn, “hornet”) and τενθρηδών (tenthrēdṓn, “kind of wasp”). The base was probably onomatopoeic, and possibly Pre-Greek: compare words for "humming" or "buzzing", like Serbo-Croatian бу̏мба̄р (“bumblebee”), Sanskrit बम्भर (bambhara, “bee”), भ्रमर (bhramara, “large black bee”) and Latin fremō (“to buzz, hum”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pem.pʰrɛː.dɔ̌ːn/ → /pem.ɸriˈðon/ → /pem.friˈðon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pem.pʰrɛː.dɔ̌ːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pem.pʰre̝ˈdon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pem.ɸriˈðon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pem.friˈðon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pem.friˈðon/

Noun

πεμφρηδών • (pemphrēdṓn) m (genitive πεμφρηδόνος); third declension

1. kind of wasp that makes its nest in hollow oaks

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ πεμφρηδών; τοῦ πεμφρηδόνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πεμφρηδών ho pemphrēdṓn	τὼ πεμφρηδόνε tṑ pemphrēdóne	οἱ πεμφρηδόνες hoi pemphrēdónes
Genitive	τοῦ πεμφρηδόνος toû pemphrēdónos	τοῖν πεμφρηδόνοιν toîn pemphrēdónoin	τῶν πεμφρηδόνων tôn pemphrēdónōn
Dative	τῷ πεμφρηδόνῐ tôi pemphrēdóni	τοῖν πεμφρηδόνοιν toîn pemphrēdónoin	τοῖς πεμφρηδόσῐ / πεμφρηδόσῐν toîs pemphrēdósi(n)
Accusative	τὸν πεμφρηδόνᾰ tòn pemphrēdóna	τὼ πεμφρηδόνε tṑ pemphrēdóne	τοὺς πεμφρηδόνᾰς toùs pemphrēdónas
Vocative	πεμφρηδών pemphrēdṓn	πεμφρηδόνε pemphrēdóne	πεμφρηδόνες pemphrēdónes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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