Φάρος

See also: φάρος, φᾶρος, and φαρός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain. In one proposed etymology the Ancient Greek name comes from the (unattested) Egyptian name for the island, corresponding to Coptic ⲫⲁⲣⲉϩ (phareh, “the guard”) = ⲫ- (ph-, “the”) +‎ ⲁⲣⲉϩ (areh, “guard”);[1]

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Φᾰ́ρος • (Phắros) f (genitive Φᾰ́ρου); second declension

  1. Pharos (a former island off Alexandria, Egypt)

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ Φᾰ́ρος; τῆς Φᾰ́ρου (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Φᾰ́ρος
hē Phắros
Genitive τῆς Φᾰ́ρου
tês Phắrou
Dative τῇ Φᾰ́ρῳ
tēî Phắrōi
Accusative τὴν Φᾰ́ρον
tḕn Phắron
Vocative Φᾰ́ρε
Phắre
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Proper noun

Φάρος • (Pháros) m

  1. The Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World[2]

Descendants

  • Greek: φάρος (fáros)
  • → Arabic: فاروس
  • → Armenian: Փարոս (Pʻaros), փարոս (pʻaros)
  • → English: Pharos
  • → French: Phare
  • → Hebrew: פארוס
  • → Latin: Pharus, Pharos, pharus
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Latin script: Hvar
    Cyrillic script: Хвар

References

  1. ^ Paul Ernst Jablonski (1804), Opuscula‎[1], volume 1, Leyden: A. & J. Honkoop, page 377 ff.
  2. ^ Strabo (no later than 23 CE), “Chapter XVII, §§ 6 & 9”, in Geographica‎[2].

Further reading

  • “Φάρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Φάρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “Φάρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎[3], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021
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