Ἀχέρων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Pre-Greek. Connection to Proto-Balto-Slavic *éźera (“lake”) is dubious.[1][2] Folk etymology claims it from ὁ ἄχεα ῥέων (ho ákhea rhéōn, “the stream of woe”).

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Ἀχέρων • (Akhérōn) m (genitive Ἀχέροντος); third declension

  1. Acheron, a river in Epirus

Inflection
Third declension of ὁ Ἀχέρων; τοῦ Ἀχέροντος (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Ἀχέρων
ho Akhérōn
Genitive τοῦ Ἀχέροντος
toû Akhérontos
Dative τῷ Ἀχέροντῐ
tôi Akhéronti
Accusative τὸν Ἀχέροντᾰ
tòn Akhéronta
Vocative Ἀχέρον
Akhéron
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • Ἀχερόντιος (Akheróntios)
  • Ἀχερούσιος (Akheroúsios)
  • Ἀχερουσιάς (Akherousiás)

Descendants
  • Greek: Αχέρων (Achéron); Αχέροντας (Achérontas)
  • Latin: Acherōn
  • Russian: Ахеро́н (Axerón)

References
  • Ἀχέρων in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Ἀχέρων in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Ἀχέρων in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • Ἀχέρων in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
  • Ἀχέρων 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, page 999
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “éźero”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 148
  2. Nuova Italia (1972): Conoscenza religiosa, p. 26
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