κεφαλή

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

• (5th BC Attic): IPA: /kepʰalɛ͜ɛ́/

• (1st BC Egyptian): IPA: /kɛpʰaléː/

• (4th AD Koine): IPA: /keɸalí/

• (10th AD Byzantine): IPA: /cefalí/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan): IPA: /cefalí/

Noun

κεφαλή (genitive κεφαλῆς) f, first declension; (kephalē)

Wikipedia

1. head
2. a person's life (often in the sense of being in danger, similar to the English idiom "head is on the line").
3. the top-most part
4. the most important part
5. (as in Byzantine Greek) a provincial governor

Derived terms

• ἀκέφαλος

Inflection

First declension of κεφᾰλή, κεφᾰλῆς

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κεφᾰλή	τὼ κεφᾰλά	αἱ κεφᾰλαί
Genitive	τῆς κεφᾰλῆς	τοῖν κεφᾰλαῖν	τῶν κεφᾰλῶν
Dative	τῇ κεφᾰλῇ	τοῖν κεφᾰλαῖν	ταῖς κεφᾰλαῖς
Accusative	τὴν κεφᾰλήν	τὼ κεφᾰλά	τὰς κεφᾰλάς
Vocative	κεφᾰλή	κεφᾰλά	κεφᾰλαί

References

• LSJ
• Bauer lexicon
• Strong’s concordance number: G2776

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Greek

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˌce̞faˈli]
• Hyphenation: κε‧φα‧λή

Etymology

Same as Ancient Greek κεφαλή (kefalí) "head".

Noun

κεφαλή (kefalí) f,   plural κεφαλές

1. Alternative form of κεφάλι.

 (Frequency comparison: κεφάλι: 71%, κεφαλή: 29%  source: Hellenic National Corpus , Sept 2010)

Declension

declension of κεφαλή

	singular (ενικός)	plural (πληθυντικός)
nominative (ονομαστική)	κεφαλή	κεφαλές
genitive (γενική)	κεφαλής	κεφαλών
accusative (αιτιατική)	κεφαλή	κεφαλές
vocative (κλητική)	κεφαλή	κεφαλές

Related terms

see: κεφάλι