Ancient Greek

Noun

δρόμος • ‎(drómos) m ‎(genitive δρόμου); second declension

1. race, running
2. racetrack
3. course, path

Inflection

Derived terms

• ἁρματοδρομία ‎(harmatodromía)
• ἱππόδρομος ‎(hippódromos)

References

• δρόμος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• δρόμος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• δρόμος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «δρόμος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «δρόμος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «δρόμος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• δρόμος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G1408”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «δρόμος» 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.
  • canter idem, page 111.
  • career idem, page 113.
  • charge idem, page 125.
  • course idem, page 178.
  • dash idem, page 196.
  • foot-race idem, page 334.
  • gallop idem, page 353.
  • heat idem, page 392.
  • lap idem, page 476.
  • orbit idem, page 578.
  • path idem, page 598.
  • promenade idem, page 653.
  • race idem, page 667.
  • racing idem, page 667.
  • roaming idem, page 718.
  • roving idem, page 723.
  • run idem, page 726.
  • running idem, page 727.
  • rush idem, page 727.
  • spurt idem, page 807.
  • trot idem, page 896.
  • wandering idem, page 961.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈðromos/

Noun

δρόμος • ‎(drómos) m ‎(plural δρόμοι)

1. roadway, road, street, way
2. journey

Declension

Derived terms

• σταυροδρόμι n ‎(stavrodrómi, “crossroads”)
• δρόμος χωρίς διόδια ‎(drómos chorís diódia, “freeway, toll-free road”)
• κατσικόδρομος m ‎(katsikódromos, “goat track”)

Coordinate terms

• οδός m ‎(odós, “urban road”)
• στράτα f ‎(stráta, “street”)
• λεωφόρος m ‎(leofóros, “avenue”)

Descendants

• Romanian: drum
• Serbo-Croatian: drum