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ἄρθρον
ἄρθρον
Ancient Greek
Noun
ᾰ̓́ρθρον • (árthron) n (genitive ᾰ̓́ρθρου); second declension
- (anatomy) Joint
- (anatomy) Limb
- (grammar) Connecting word
- (grammar) An article: a category including the definite article ὁ (ho) and the basic relative pronoun ὅς (hós)
Usage notes
Note concerning definition #2, ἄρθρον (árthron) was sometimes used to refer to various body parts such as the ankles, eyes, mouth, genitals, etc.
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ᾰ̓́ρθρον | τὼ ᾰ̓́ρθρω | τᾰ̀ ᾰ̓́ρθρᾰ | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ᾰ̓́ρθρου | τοῖν ᾰ̓́ρθροιν | τῶν ᾰ̓́ρθρων | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ᾰ̓́ρθρῳ | τοῖν ᾰ̓́ρθροιν | τοῖς ᾰ̓́ρθροις | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ᾰ̓́ρθρον | τὼ ᾰ̓́ρθρω | τᾰ̀ ᾰ̓́ρθρᾰ | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ᾰ̓́ρθρον | ᾰ̓́ρθρω | ᾰ̓́ρθρᾰ | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Descendants
- English: arthropod
- Translingual Arthropoda
References
- ἄρθρον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἄρθρον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- «ἄρθρον» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- «ἄρθρον» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
- «ἄρθρον» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- joint idem, page 463.