μετέωρος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

μετήορος (metḗoros) — Epic

Etymology

For μετήορος (metḗoros), from μετά (metá, “beyond”) + *ἀορος (*aoros), an o-grade noun from ἀείρω (aeírō, “I lift up, raise”).^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /me.té.ɔː.ros/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /meˈte.o.ros/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /meˈte.o.ros/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /meˈte.o.ros/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /meˈte.o.ros/

Adjective

μετέωρος • (metéōros) m or f (neuter μετέωρον); second declension

lifted up, on high, in air
(nominalized, neuter plural) astronomical phenomena

Declension

Second declension of μετέωρος; μετέωρον (Attic)

Number	Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	μετέωρος metéōros		μετέωρον metéōron	μετεώρω meteṓrō		μετεώρω meteṓrō	μετέωροι metéōroi		μετέωρᾰ metéōră
Genitive	μετεώρου meteṓrou		μετεώρου meteṓrou	μετεώροιν meteṓroin		μετεώροιν meteṓroin	μετεώρων meteṓrōn		μετεώρων meteṓrōn
Dative	μετεώρῳ meteṓrōi		μετεώρῳ meteṓrōi	μετεώροιν meteṓroin		μετεώροιν meteṓroin	μετεώροις meteṓrois		μετεώροις meteṓrois
Accusative	μετέωρον metéōron		μετέωρον metéōron	μετεώρω meteṓrō		μετεώρω meteṓrō	μετεώρους meteṓrous		μετέωρᾰ metéōră
Vocative	μετέωρε metéōre		μετέωρον metéōron	μετεώρω meteṓrō		μετεώρω meteṓrō	μετέωροι metéōroi		μετέωρᾰ metéōră
Derived forms	Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
Derived forms	μετεώρως meteṓrōs			μετεωρότερος meteōróteros			μετεωρότᾰτος meteōrótătos
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

From the neuter μετέωρον:

→ Bulgarian: метео́р (meteór)
→ Latin: meteōrum (see there for further descendants)
→ Macedonian: метеор (meteor)
→ Russian: метео́р (meteór)
- → Kazakh: метеор (meteor)
→ Turkish: meteor

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “μετέωρος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 939

“μετέωρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“μετέωρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
μετέωρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- aerial idem, page 15.
- air idem, page 21.
- airy idem, page 21.
- anxious idem, page 33.
- dangling idem, page 194.
- elevated idem, page 265.
- excited idem, page 289.
- expectant idem, page 293.
- expectation idem, page 293.
- ferment idem, page 315.
- hanging idem, page 384.
- high idem, page 399.
- high seas idem, page 399.
- hover idem, page 408.
- lofty idem, page 497.
- meteorological idem, page 527.
- open idem, page 574.
- pendulous idem, page 603.
- poise idem, page 624.
- qui vive idem, page 665.
- raised idem, page 669.
- rising idem, page 717.
- sea idem, page 744.
- sky-high idem, page 781.
- sloping idem, page 785.
- soaring idem, page 790.
- sublime idem, page 831.
- supernal idem, page 839.
- suspend idem, page 845.
- suspense idem, page 845.
- tenterhooks idem, page 862.
- tip-toe idem, page 877.
- uneasy idem, page 916.
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “meteor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
μετέωρος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

[1] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “μετέωρος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 939

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