Φάρος

See also: φάρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Egyptian [Term?] (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?), or simply from the noun φάρος (pháros, “lighthouse”), of unknown origin,[1] but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰar- (“log, board, plank”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰá.ros/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰa.ros/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸa.ros/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ros/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ros/

Proper noun

Φᾰ́ρος • (Pháros) f (genitive Φᾰ́ρου); second declension

Pharos

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ Φᾰ́ρος; τῆς Φᾰ́ρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Φᾰ́ρος hē Pháros
Genitive	τῆς Φᾰ́ρου tês Phárou
Dative	τῇ Φᾰ́ρῳ têi Phárōi
Accusative	τὴν Φᾰ́ρον tḕn Pháron
Vocative	Φᾰ́ρε Pháre
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Greek: φάρος (fáros)
→ Arabic: فاروس‎
→ Armenian: Փարոս (Pʿaros), փարոս (pʿaros)
→ English: Pharos
→ French: Phare
→ Hebrew: פארוס‎
→ Latin: Pharus, Pharos, pharus
- Italian: faro
- Old French:
  - French: phare
    - → Bulgarian: фар (far)
    - → English: phare
    - → Luxembourgish: Phar
    - → Macedonian: фар (far)
    - → Romanian: far
    - → Russian: фара (fara)
    - → Vietnamese: pha
- Old Leonese:
  - Asturian: faru
- Old Occitan:
  - Catalan: far
- Old Portuguese:
  - Galician: faro
  - Portuguese: faro, farol
- Old Spanish:
  - Spanish: faro, farol
    - → Cebuano: parol
    - → Tagalog: parol
      - → English: parol
- → Albanian: far
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Latin: Hvar

Cyrillic: Хвар
- → English: Hvar

References

Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “φάρος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1555

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[1] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “φάρος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1555