δάκρυον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Back-formation from δάκρυα (dákrua), originally the plural of δάκρυ (dákru).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /dá.kry.on/ → /ˈða.kry.on/ → /ˈða.kri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /dá.kry.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈda.kry.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈða.kry.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈða.kry.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈða.kri.on/

Noun

δᾰ́κρῠον • (dắkrŭon) n (genitive δᾰκρῠ́ου); second declension

1. alternative form of δᾰ́κρῠ (dắkrŭ, “tear”)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ δᾰ́κρῠον; τοῦ δᾰκρῠ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ δᾰ́κρῠον tò dắkrŭon	τὼ δᾰκρῠ́ω tṑ dăkrŭ́ō	τᾰ̀ δᾰ́κρῠᾰ tằ dắkrŭă
Genitive	τοῦ δᾰκρῠ́ου toû dăkrŭ́ou	τοῖν δᾰκρῠ́οιν toîn dăkrŭ́oin	τῶν δᾰκρῠ́ων tôn dăkrŭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ δᾰκρῠ́ῳ tōî dăkrŭ́ōi	τοῖν δᾰκρῠ́οιν toîn dăkrŭ́oin	τοῖς δᾰκρῠ́οις toîs dăkrŭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ δᾰ́κρῠον tò dắkrŭon	τὼ δᾰκρῠ́ω tṑ dăkrŭ́ō	τᾰ̀ δᾰ́κρῠᾰ tằ dắkrŭă
Vocative	δᾰ́κρῠον dắkrŭon	δᾰκρῠ́ω dăkrŭ́ō	δᾰ́κρῠᾰ dắkrŭă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

• Epic oblique transnumeral form: δακρυόφι (dakruóphi)

Derived terms

• δακρυόεις (dakruóeis)

Further reading

• “δάκρυον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “δάκρυον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “δάκρυον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• δάκρυον 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
• δάκρυον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• δάκρυον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• “δάκρυον”, 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • tear idem, page 859.