Ancient Greek

Ἀνὴρ Σωκράτης καλούμενος.

Noun

ἀνήρ • ‎(anḗr) m ‎(genitive ἀνδρός); third declension

1. man (adult male)
2. husband

Usage notes

The word ἀνήρ may form a crasis with the definite article, resulting in ὁ ‎(ho) and ἀνήρ merging. The Attic crasis is ᾱ̔νήρ ‎(hānḗr) and the Ionic crasis is ὡνήρ ‎(hōnḗr).

Inflection

Antonyms

• γυνή ‎(gunḗ, “woman, female, wife”)

Derived terms

Related terms

• ἄρσην ‎(ársēn, “male”)

Descendants

• Greek: άνδρας ‎(ándras)

References

• ἀνήρ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀνήρ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀνήρ in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἀνήρ» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «ἀνήρ» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «ἀνήρ» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• ἀνήρ in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G120”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • consort idem, page 164.
  • husband idem, page 411.
  • man idem, page 510.
  • spouse idem, page 805.