-ώροφος
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Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learnedly, from Ancient Greek -ώροφος (-ṓrophos).[1] The noun ὄροφος (órophos) as second combining form, with vowel change according to Wackernagel's law "lengthening in composition" (here, from brachy, short omicron ⟨ο⟩ to macron, long omega ⟨ω⟩).[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-ώροφος • (-órofos) m
- the noun όροφος (órofos) as second combining form of adjectives or nouns denoting the number of floors or their characteristics
Declension
[edit]As a noun:
Declension of -ώροφος
As an adjective:
Declension of -ώροφος
| number case \ gender |
singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | |
| nominative | -ώροφος • | -ώροφη • | -ώροφο • | -ώροφοι • | -ώροφες • | -ώροφα • |
| genitive | -ώροφου • | -ώροφης • | -ώροφου • | -ώροφων • | -ώροφων • | -ώροφων • |
| accusative | -ώροφο • | -ώροφη • | -ώροφο • | -ώροφους • | -ώροφες • | -ώροφα • |
| vocative | -ώροφε • | -ώροφη • | -ώροφο • | -ώροφοι • | -ώροφες • | -ώροφα • |
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “-ώροφος”, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998
- ^ Nagy, Gregory (2008) Greek, II§6
"when two vowels come together as the final and initial elements of two compound-formants, the resulting contraction will entail the elision of the first vowel (V1) and the lengthening of the second vowel (V2)"