Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἠέρος ‎(ēéros) Homeric, genitive
• ᾱ̓βήρ ‎(ābḗr) Doric
• αὐήρ ‎(auḗr) Aeolic
• ἠήρ ‎(ēḗr) Ionic

Noun

ᾱ̓ήρ • ‎(āḗr) m ‎(genitive ᾱ̓έρος); third declension

1. mist
2. air
3. wind
4. space, volume
5. blue or grey (the colour of the sky)

Inflection

Descendants

• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܐܐܪ ‎(ʾāʾar)

• Greek: αέρας ‎(aéras)
• Latin: āēr

See also

• αἰθήρ ‎(aithḗr)

References

• ἀήρ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀήρ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀήρ in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἀήρ» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἀήρ in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G109”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «ἀήρ» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • air idem, page 21.
  • atmosphere idem, page 49.
  • climate idem, page 137.
  • weather idem, page 971.
• Bauer lexicon

1. ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ᾱ̓ήρ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 27
2. ↑ Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, § 54
3. ↑ Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, § 284 A