Ancient Greek

Noun

γέρρον • ‎(gérrhon) n ‎(genitive γέρρου); second declension

1. anything made of wicker-work
   1. an oblong shield, covered with ox-hide, such as the Persians used
   2. wattled screens or booths, used in the Athens marketplace
   3. the wicker body of a cart
   4. penthouse
   5. rod, stake, dart

Inflection

Synonyms

• (penthouse): γερροχελώνη ‎(gerrhokhelṓnē)

References

• γέρρον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• γέρρον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «γέρρον» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «γέρρον» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • shield idem, page 765.
  • target idem, page 855.
  • wicker idem, page 978.
• LSJ 7th edition
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill