δάκρυ

• δᾰ́κρῠον (dắkrŭon)

From Proto-Indo-European *dáḱru. Cognates include Latin lacruma, Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌲𐍂 (tagr), Old English tēar, Sanskrit अश्रु॑ (áśru) and Old Armenian արտաւսր (artawsr).

δᾰ́κρῠ • (dắkrŭ) n (genitive δᾰ́κρῠος); third declension (poetic)

1. tear (drop of liquid from the eye)
   • c. 1426 – 1428, Bessarion, First Monody ^[1]:

     ἢ τούτου χάριν καὶ πυκνὰ πρὸς τὸν αὐτὴν ἀποκρύπτοντα τύμβον ἐνατενίζων στένεις, ἀναφλεγόμενος τὴν ψυχὴν καὶ θερμῷ τὰς παρειὰς δάκρυϊ τέγγων

     ḕ toútou khárin kaì puknà pròs tòn autḕn apokrúptonta túmbon enatenízōn sténeis, anaphlegómenos tḕn psukhḕn kaì thermōî tàs pareiàs dákruï téngōn

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (figurative) anything which drips like a tear, such as gum or sap

• Greek: δάκρυ (dákry)
• → English: dacryo-

• “δάκρυ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “δάκρυ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “δάκρυ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• δάκρυ 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
• δάκρυ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• δάκρυ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• “δάκρυ”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G1144 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • exudation idem, page 298.
  • gum idem, page 379.
  • tear idem, page 859.
• Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache von Dr. Raphael Kühner. Erster Teil: Elementar- und Formenlehre. Dritte Auflage in zwei Bänden in neuer Bearbeitung besorgt von Friedrich Blass. Erster Band, Hannover, 1890, page 438, § 125

From Ancient Greek δάκρυ (dákru), from Proto-Indo-European *dáḱru-.

δάκρυ • (dákry) n (plural δάκρυα)

1. tear (from crying)

• δάκρυ on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el