καθετήρ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From καθίημι (kathíēmi, “to let down, descend”) +‎ -τήρ (-tḗr).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.tʰe.tɛ̌ːr/ → /ka.θeˈtir/ → /ka.θeˈtir/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.tʰe.tɛ̌ːr/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ka.tʰeˈte̝r/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ka.θeˈtir/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ka.θeˈtir/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ka.θeˈtir/

Noun

κᾰθετήρ • (kathetḗr) m (genitive κᾰθετῆρος); third declension

1. (medicine) a surgical instrument for emptying the bladder, a catheter

Declension

Third declension of ὁ κᾰθετήρ; τοῦ κᾰθετῆρος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κᾰθετήρ ho kathetḗr	τὼ κᾰθετῆρε tṑ kathetêre	οἱ κᾰθετῆρες hoi kathetêres
Genitive	τοῦ κᾰθετῆρος toû kathetêros	τοῖν κᾰθετήροιν toîn kathetḗroin	τῶν κᾰθετήρων tôn kathetḗrōn
Dative	τῷ κᾰθετῆρῐ tôi kathetêri	τοῖν κᾰθετήροιν toîn kathetḗroin	τοῖς κᾰθετῆρσῐ / κᾰθετῆρσῐν toîs kathetêrsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν κᾰθετῆρᾰ tòn kathetêra	τὼ κᾰθετῆρε tṑ kathetêre	τοὺς κᾰθετῆρᾰς toùs kathetêras
Vocative	κᾰθετήρ kathetḗr	κᾰθετῆρε kathetêre	κᾰθετῆρες kathetêres
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Arabic: قَثْطَرَة (qaṯṭara), قَسْطَر (qasṭar), قَسْطَرَة (qasṭara)
• → English: catheter
• → French: cathéter
• Greek: καθετήρας (kathetíras)

Further reading

• “καθετήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• καθετήρ 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
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.