ἄνδηρον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἄνδειρον (ándeiron)

Etymology

Neumann points to the fact that many words connected with irrigation don't look of Indo-European origin and, beside this word, he mentions ἄρδω (árdō, “to irrigate”) and γόργῡρα (górgūra, “underground drain”). Furnée thinks that the suffix "-ηρον" is Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /án.dɛː.ron/ → /ˈan.di.ron/ → /ˈan.di.ron/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /án.dɛː.ron/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈan.de̝.ron/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈan.di.ron/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈan.di.ron/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈan.di.ron/

Noun

ἄνδηρον • (ándēron) n (genitive ἀνδήρου); second declension

1. raised bank by the side of a river or ditch
2. dam, dyke
3. border, edge of the sea
4. border for plants or flowers

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ἄνδηρον; τοῦ ἀνδήρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἄνδηρον tò ándēron	τὼ ἀνδήρω tṑ andḗrō	τᾰ̀ ἄνδηρᾰ tà ándēra
Genitive	τοῦ ἀνδήρου toû andḗrou	τοῖν ἀνδήροιν toîn andḗroin	τῶν ἀνδήρων tôn andḗrōn
Dative	τῷ ἀνδήρῳ tôi andḗrōi	τοῖν ἀνδήροιν toîn andḗroin	τοῖς ἀνδήροις toîs andḗrois
Accusative	τὸ ἄνδηρον tò ándēron	τὼ ἀνδήρω tṑ andḗrō	τᾰ̀ ἄνδηρᾰ tà ándēra
Vocative	ἄνδηρον ándēron	ἀνδήρω andḗrō	ἄνδηρᾰ ándēra
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀνδηρευτής (andēreutḗs)

Descendants

• Greek: άνδηρο (ándiro)

Further reading

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