πτερόν

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥. Connected with πέτομαι (pétomai, “I fly”).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

πτερόν • (pterón) n (genitive πτεροῦ); second declension

  1. feather
  2. wing
  3. Any winged creature
  4. Any wing-like object

Usage notes

Inflection
Second declension of τὸ πτερόν; τοῦ πτεροῦ (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τὸ πτερόν
tò pterón		 τὼ πτερώ
tṑ pterṓ		 τᾰ̀ πτερᾰ́
tà pterá
Genitive τοῦ πτεροῦ
toû pteroû		 τοῖν πτεροῖν
toîn pteroîn		 τῶν πτερῶν
tôn pterôn
Dative τῷ πτερῷ
tôi pterôi		 τοῖν πτεροῖν
toîn pteroîn		 τοῖς πτεροῖς
toîs pteroîs
Accusative τὸ πτερόν
tò pterón		 τὼ πτερώ
tṑ pterṓ		 τᾰ̀ πτερᾰ́
tà pterá
Vocative πτερόν
pterón		 πτερώ
pterṓ		 πτερᾰ́
pterá
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading
  • πτερόν in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • πτερόν in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • πτερόν in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • πτερόν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • πτερόν in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • πτερόν in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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