νεφρός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *negʷʰrós. Cognates include Latin nefrōnes and Old High German nioro.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

νεφρός • (nephrós) m (genitive νεφροῦ); second declension

  1. (anatomy, usually in the plural) kidney
  2. (euphemistic) testicle
  3. mind

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ νεφρός; τοῦ νεφροῦ (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ νεφρός
ho nephrós		 τὼ νεφρώ
tṑ nephrṓ		 οἱ νεφροί
hoi nephroí
Genitive τοῦ νεφροῦ
toû nephroû		 τοῖν νεφροῖν
toîn nephroîn		 τῶν νεφρῶν
tôn nephrôn
Dative τῷ νεφρῷ
tôi nephrôi		 τοῖν νεφροῖν
toîn nephroîn		 τοῖς νεφροῖς
toîs nephroîs
Accusative τὸν νεφρόν
tòn nephrón		 τὼ νεφρώ
tṑ nephrṓ		 τοὺς νεφρούς
toùs nephroús
Vocative νεφρέ
nephré		 νεφρώ
nephrṓ		 νεφροί
nephroí
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • νεφρῖτις (nephrîtis)

Descendants

Further reading

Greek

Noun

νεφρός • (nefrós) n (plural νεφροί)

  1. Katharevousa form of νεφρό (nefró)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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