περίδρομος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From a suppletive root of περῐτρέχω (peritrékhō, “I run about”); see, for example, περῐδρᾰμεῖται (peridrameîtai).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pe.rí.dro.mos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /peˈri.dro.mos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /peˈri.ðro.mos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /peˈri.ðro.mos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /peˈri.ðro.mos/
Adjective
περῐ́δρομος • (perídromos) m or f (neuter περῐ́δρομον); second declension
- running round, encircling, round, circular
- wandering, going about, roaming
- (passive voice) that can be run round; hence, standing apart, detached
- surrounded
Declension
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
| Nominative | περῐ́δρομος perídromos |
περῐ́δρομον perídromon |
περῐδρόμω peridrómō |
περῐδρόμω peridrómō |
περῐ́δρομοι perídromoi |
περῐ́δρομᾰ perídroma | ||||||||
| Genitive | περῐδρόμου peridrómou |
περῐδρόμου peridrómou |
περῐδρόμοιν peridrómoin |
περῐδρόμοιν peridrómoin |
περῐδρόμων peridrómōn |
περῐδρόμων peridrómōn | ||||||||
| Dative | περῐδρόμῳ peridrómōi |
περῐδρόμῳ peridrómōi |
περῐδρόμοιν peridrómoin |
περῐδρόμοιν peridrómoin |
περῐδρόμοις peridrómois |
περῐδρόμοις peridrómois | ||||||||
| Accusative | περῐ́δρομον perídromon |
περῐ́δρομον perídromon |
περῐδρόμω peridrómō |
περῐδρόμω peridrómō |
περῐδρόμους peridrómous |
περῐ́δρομᾰ perídroma | ||||||||
| Vocative | περῐ́δρομε perídrome |
περῐ́δρομον perídromon |
περῐδρόμω peridrómō |
περῐδρόμω peridrómō |
περῐ́δρομοι perídromoi |
περῐ́δρομᾰ perídroma | ||||||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| περῐδρόμως peridrómōs |
περῐδρομώτερος peridromṓteros |
περῐδρομώτᾰτος peridromṓtatos | ||||||||||||
| Notes: |
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Noun
περῐ́δρομος • (perídromos) m (genitive περῐδρόμου); second declension
- that which surrounds, edge, rim
- orbit, lap
- (at Mytilene, in the plural) circuit-judges
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ περῐ́δρομος ho perídromos |
τὼ περῐδρόμω tṑ peridrómō |
οἱ περῐ́δρομοι hoi perídromoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ περῐδρόμου toû peridrómou |
τοῖν περῐδρόμοιν toîn peridrómoin |
τῶν περῐδρόμων tôn peridrómōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ περῐδρόμῳ tôi peridrómōi |
τοῖν περῐδρόμοιν toîn peridrómoin |
τοῖς περῐδρόμοις toîs peridrómois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν περῐ́δρομον tòn perídromon |
τὼ περῐδρόμω tṑ peridrómō |
τοὺς περῐδρόμους toùs peridrómous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | περῐ́δρομε perídrome |
περῐδρόμω peridrómō |
περῐ́δρομοι perídromoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → English: peridromophile, peridromophily
Further reading
- “περίδρομος, ον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “περίδρομος, ὁ, Subst.”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “περίδρομος1”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “περίδρομος2”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “περίδρομος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- περίδρομος 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- circuit idem, page 132.
- circumference idem, page 132.
- gallery idem, page 353.
- rim idem, page 715.
- rimmed idem, page 716.
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