Ἀχέρων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

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
tōî Akhérontĭ
Accusative τὸν Ἀχέροντᾰ
tòn Akhérontă
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)
  • Ἀχερουσιάς (Akherousiás)
  • Ἀχερούσιος (Akheroúsios)

Descendants

References

  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

Further reading

  • “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 (2006–2026)
  • “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[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 999
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