ἄρθρον - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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From Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-dʰrom, from *h₂er- (“to fit”) + *-dʰrom (“tool or instrument suffix”), synchronically analyzable as ἀραρίσκω (ararískō) + -θρον (-thron).[1]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ár.tʰron/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈar.tʰron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈar.θron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈar.θron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈar.θron/
ᾰ̓́ρθρον • (ắrthron) n (genitive ᾰ̓́ρθρου); second declension
- (anatomy) joint
- Synonym: ἅψος (hápsos)
- (anatomy) limb
- articulation
- ἄρθρον τῆς φωνῆς (árthron tês phōnês) – vocal articulation
- (grammar) connecting word
- (grammar) an article: a category including the definite article ὁ (ho) and the basic relative pronoun ὅς (hós)
Note concerning definition #2, ἄρθρον (árthron) was sometimes used to refer to various body parts such as the ankles, eyes, mouth, genitals, etc.
- Greek: άρθρο (árthro)
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἄρθρον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 130
- “ἄρθρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄρθρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἄρθρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄρθρον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- ἄρθρον in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- joint idem, page 463.
- ἄρθρον, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011