Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μάρμαρον ‎(mármaron)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /mármaros/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /mármaros/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /máɾmaɾos/

Noun

μάρμαρος • ‎(mármaros) m ‎(genitive μαρμάρου); second declension

1. crystalline rock
2. marble
   1. anything made of marble, tombstone
   2. marble chips

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: μάρμαρο ‎(mármaro)
• → Arabic: مرمر ‎(marmar)
• → Bulgarian: мра́мор ‎(mrámor)
• → Latin: marmor (see there for further descendants)
  • → English: marble
  • → Old Church Slavonic: мраморъ ‎(mramorŭ)
    • → Russian: мра́мор ‎(mrámor)
  • → Old Polish: marmor
    • → Lithuanian: mármoras
• → Old Armenian: մարմար ‎(marmar), մարմարիոն ‎(marmarion)
  • Armenian: մարմար ‎(marmar)
• → Old Georgian: მარმარილოჲ ‎(marmariloy)
  • Georgian: მარმარილო ‎(marmarilo)
    • → Bats: მარმარილო̆ ‎(marmarilŏ)
• → Old East Slavic: мороморъ ‎(moromorŭ), мироморъ ‎(miromorŭ)
• → Persian: مرمر ‎(marmar)
  • → Bashkir: мәрмәр ‎(märmär)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: مرمر ‎(mermer)
    • Turkish: mermer
    • → Armenian: մէռմէռ ‎(mēṙmēṙ)

References

• μάρμαρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μάρμαρος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μάρμαρος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «μάρμαρος» 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
• «μάρμαρος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G3139”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «μάρμαρος» 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
• 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
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), “մարմար”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935, page 387a
• Boisacq, Émile (1916), “μάρμαρος”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque (in French), Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 611