ἄναυρος

See also: Ἄναυρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, of Pre-Greek origin. Others have interpreted the word as “waterless”, with ἀν- (an-, “alpha privativum”) + an unknown word for water (connected with the name of various rivers, like Metaurus, Pisaurus and Avara). Niemeyer connects the word to Proto-Germanic *auraz (“wet sand or earth, mud; water, sea”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /á.nau̯.ros/ → /ˈa.na.βros/ → /ˈa.na.vros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /á.nau̯.ros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈa.naw.ros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.na.βros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.na.vros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈa.na.vros/

Noun

ἄναυρος • (ánauros) m (genitive ἀναύρου); second declension

1. mountain torrent

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ἄναυρος; τοῦ ἀναύρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἄναυρος ho ánauros	τὼ ἀναύρω tṑ anaúrō	οἱ ἄναυροι hoi ánauroi
Genitive	τοῦ ἀναύρου toû anaúrou	τοῖν ἀναύροιν toîn anaúroin	τῶν ἀναύρων tôn anaúrōn
Dative	τῷ ἀναύρῳ tôi anaúrōi	τοῖν ἀναύροιν toîn anaúroin	τοῖς ἀναύροις toîs anaúrois
Accusative	τὸν ἄναυρον tòn ánauron	τὼ ἀναύρω tṑ anaúrō	τοὺς ἀναύρους toùs anaúrous
Vocative	ἄναυρε ánaure	ἀναύρω anaúrō	ἄναυροι ánauroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ἄναυρος (Ánauros)

Further reading

• “ἄναυρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄναυρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄναυρος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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