ἄντρον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

A Greekish-type Pre-Greek word.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /án.tron/ → /ˈan.tron/ → /ˈan.dron/

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

Noun

ᾰ̓́ντρον • (ántron) n (genitive ᾰ̓́ντρου); second declension

1. (poetic) cave

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ᾰ̓́ντρον; τοῦ ᾰ̓́ντρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ᾰ̓́ντρον tò ántron	τὼ ᾰ̓́ντρω tṑ ántrō	τᾰ̀ ᾰ̓́ντρᾰ tà ántra
Genitive	τοῦ ᾰ̓́ντρου toû ántrou	τοῖν ᾰ̓́ντροιν toîn ántroin	τῶν ᾰ̓́ντρων tôn ántrōn
Dative	τῷ ᾰ̓́ντρῳ tôi ántrōi	τοῖν ᾰ̓́ντροιν toîn ántroin	τοῖς ᾰ̓́ντροις toîs ántrois
Accusative	τὸ ᾰ̓́ντρον tò ántron	τὼ ᾰ̓́ντρω tṑ ántrō	τᾰ̀ ᾰ̓́ντρᾰ tà ántra
Vocative	ᾰ̓́ντρον ántron	ᾰ̓́ντρω ántrō	ᾰ̓́ντρᾰ ántra
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: antrum (see there for further descendants)

References

• “ἄντρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἄντρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἄντρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette