Ἀχέρων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Pre-Greek. Connection to Proto-Balto-Slavic *éźera (“lake”) is dubious. Folk etymology claims it from ὁ ἄχεα ῥέων (ho ákhea rhéōn, “the stream of woe”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.kʰé.rɔːn/ → /aˈçe.ron/ → /aˈçe.ron/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.kʰé.rɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈkʰe.ron/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈçe.ron/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈçe.ron/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈçe.ron/

Proper noun

Ἀχέρων • (Akhérōn) m (genitive Ἀχέροντος); third declension

1. Acheron, a river in Epirus

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Ἀχέρων; τοῦ Ἀχέροντος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ἀχέρων ho Akhérōn
Genitive	τοῦ Ἀχέροντος toû Akhérontos
Dative	τῷ Ἀχέροντῐ tôi Akhéronti
Accusative	τὸν Ἀχέροντᾰ tòn Akhéronta
Vocative	Ἀχέρον Akhéron
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ἀχερόντιος (Akheróntios)
• Ἀχερούσιος (Akheroúsios)
• Ἀχερουσιάς (Akherousiás)

Descendants

• Greek: Αχέρων (Achéron), Αχέροντας (Achérontas)
• Latin: Acherōn
• Russian: Ахеро́н (Axerón)

References

• “Ἀχέρων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ἀχέρων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Ἀχέρων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Ἀχέρων in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “Ἀχέρων”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 999