ἔμπετρον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Neutral form of ἔμπετρος (émpetros, “growing on rocks”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ém.pe.tron/ → /ˈem.pe.tron/ → /ˈem.be.tron/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ém.pe.tron/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈem.pe.tron/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈem.pe.tron/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈem.pe.tron/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈem.be.tron/

Noun

ἔμπετρον • (émpetron) n (genitive ἐμπέτρου); second declension

1. sea heath (Frankenia pulverulenta)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ἔμπετρον; τοῦ ἐμπέτρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἔμπετρον tò émpetron	τὼ ἐμπέτρω tṑ empétrō	τᾰ̀ ἔμπετρᾰ tà émpetra
Genitive	τοῦ ἐμπέτρου toû empétrou	τοῖν ἐμπέτροιν toîn empétroin	τῶν ἐμπέτρων tôn empétrōn
Dative	τῷ ἐμπέτρῳ tôi empétrōi	τοῖν ἐμπέτροιν toîn empétroin	τοῖς ἐμπέτροις toîs empétrois
Accusative	τὸ ἔμπετρον tò émpetron	τὼ ἐμπέτρω tṑ empétrō	τᾰ̀ ἔμπετρᾰ tà émpetra
Vocative	ἔμπετρον émpetron	ἐμπέτρω empétrō	ἔμπετρᾰ émpetra
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Empetrum

Further reading

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