κηρός

See also: Κηρός and κῆρος

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɛː.rós/ → /ciˈros/ → /ciˈros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɛː.rós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ke̝ˈros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ciˈros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ciˈros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈros/

Etymology 1

A foreign loan from a substrate language, cognate with Latin cēra and Albanian qiri, and possibly also with Lithuanian korys, Latvian kāre.

Noun

κηρός • (kērós) m (genitive κηροῦ); second declension

1. beeswax, honeycomb
2. (in the plural) wax tapers

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κηρός; τοῦ κηροῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κηρός ho kērós	τὼ κηρώ tṑ kērṓ	οἱ κηροί hoi kēroí
Genitive	τοῦ κηροῦ toû kēroû	τοῖν κηροῖν toîn kēroîn	τῶν κηρῶν tôn kērôn
Dative	τῷ κηρῷ tôi kērôi	τοῖν κηροῖν toîn kēroîn	τοῖς κηροῖς toîs kēroîs
Accusative	τὸν κηρόν tòn kērón	τὼ κηρώ tṑ kērṓ	τοὺς κηρούς toùs kēroús
Vocative	κηρέ kēré	κηρώ kērṓ	κηροί kēroí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κήρινος (kḗrinos)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

κηρός • (kērós)

1. genitive singular of κήρ (kḗr)

Further reading

• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
• “κηρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κηρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κηρός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κηρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κηρός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “κηρός”, 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.
  • wax idem, page 968.