βάραθρον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bá.ra.tʰron/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈba.ra.tʰron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβa.ra.θron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈva.ra.θron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈva.ra.θron/
Noun
βᾰ́ρᾰθρον • (bárathron) n (genitive βᾰρᾰ́θρου); second declension
- gulf, cleft, pit (especially one at Athens behind the acropolis into which criminals were thrown)
- ruin, perdition
- glutton, spendthrift
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ βᾰ́ρᾰθρον tò bárathron |
τὼ βᾰρᾰ́θρω tṑ baráthrō |
τᾰ̀ βᾰ́ρᾰθρᾰ tà bárathra | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ βᾰρᾰ́θρου toû baráthrou |
τοῖν βᾰρᾰ́θροιν toîn baráthroin |
τῶν βᾰρᾰ́θρων tôn baráthrōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ βᾰρᾰ́θρῳ tôi baráthrōi |
τοῖν βᾰρᾰ́θροιν toîn baráthroin |
τοῖς βᾰρᾰ́θροις toîs baráthrois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ βᾰ́ρᾰθρον tò bárathron |
τὼ βᾰρᾰ́θρω tṑ baráthrō |
τᾰ̀ βᾰ́ρᾰθρᾰ tà bárathra | ||||||||||
| Vocative | βᾰ́ρᾰθρον bárathron |
βᾰρᾰ́θρω baráthrō |
βᾰ́ρᾰθρᾰ bárathra | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Related terms
Descendants
- Greek: βάραθρο (várathro)
Further reading
- βάραθρον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βάραθρον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- βάραθρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βάραθρον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2018)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- pit idem, page 614.
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