πρέμνον
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
Unexplained. Furnée assumes that is a variant of πρυμνός (prumnós, “hindmost, undermost”) and considers the word Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /prém.non/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈprem.non/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈprem.non/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈprem.non/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈprem.non/
Noun edit
πρέμνον • (prémnon) n (genitive πρέμνου); second declension
- (botany) bottom of the trunk of a tree, stump
- (in general) stem, trunk, bole
- enlarged bark of the stem of the olive
- (architecture) base of a pillar
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ πρέμνον tò prémnon |
τὼ πρέμνω tṑ prémnō |
τᾰ̀ πρέμνᾰ tà prémna | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πρέμνου toû prémnou |
τοῖν πρέμνοιν toîn prémnoin |
τῶν πρέμνων tôn prémnōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πρέμνῳ tôi prémnōi |
τοῖν πρέμνοιν toîn prémnoin |
τοῖς πρέμνοις toîs prémnois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ πρέμνον tò prémnon |
τὼ πρέμνω tṑ prémnō |
τᾰ̀ πρέμνᾰ tà prémna | ||||||||||
Vocative | πρέμνον prémnon |
πρέμνω prémnō |
πρέμνᾰ prémna | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
- αὐτόπρεμνος (autópremnos)
- ἐκπρεμνίζω (ekpremnízō)
- πρέμνια (prémnia)
- πρεμνιάζω (premniázō)
- πρεμνίζω (premnízō)
- πρέμνιον (prémnion)
- πρέμνοθεν (prémnothen)
- πρεμνώδης (premnṓdēs)
Further reading edit
- “πρέμνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πρέμνον 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