Rules of Gender Determination in Greek

What are the rules of gender determination in Greek? I have looked but cannot get a definite answer.

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Search for gender NEAR determine in your Lexicons and Grammars (with Match all forms). Use a dynamic collection type:(lexicon,grammar) instead of specifying books.

There does not appear to be a definite answer.

MJ. Smith

For Indo-European languages, the normal answer is:

semantic basis e.g. match the gender of what the word means to its grammatical gender
morphological basis e.g. the form of the word determines it gender
historical etymological consideration
completely arbitrary
influence of languages often interacted with
historical grammatical changes

David Thomas

What are the rules of gender determination

2 other users mentioned a lack of definiteness.

grammatical gender is like "how may licks to the center of a Tootsie Pop?" The world may never know. I remember as a middle school student in Spanish I being told Pen (la pluma - fem), Pencil (el lapiz - masc) and Paper (el papel - masc.) are exhibit 1 of grammatical gender being totally unrelated to biological gender.

David McClister

If you're asking what reasoning the ancient Greeks used to decide whether a noun in their language would be masculine, feminine, or neuter, the answer is "we don't know." As others have pointed out, though, in the Greek language gender is a grammatical category. It has no bearing on meaning that I am aware of.