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From Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ (“feather”). Related to πέτομαι (pétomai, “I fly”), as well as to English feather.^[1]

πτερόν • (pterón) n (genitive πτεροῦ); second declension

Usually plural.
Along with ᾠόν (ōión), λουτρόν (loutrón), ζυγόν (zugón) and ἑρπετόν (herpetón), this is one of the very few neuter nouns that does not have a recessive accent.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πτερόν”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1248

“πτερόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“πτερόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“πτερόν”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
πτερόν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
πτερόν in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“πτερόν”, 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.
- arrow idem, page 42.
- augury idem, page 52.
- bolt idem, page 88.
- feather idem, page 313.
- omen idem, page 572.
- pinion idem, page 614.
- plume idem, page 621.
- quill idem, page 667.
- shaft idem, page 760.
- sign idem, page 774.
- wing idem, page 981.
“πτερόν”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011