καρχήσιον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• καρχᾱσιον (karkhāsion) — Doric

Etymology

Foreign word of unknown origin. Maybe from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kar.kʰɛ̌ː.si.on/ → /karˈçi.si.on/ → /karˈçi.si.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kar.kʰɛ̌ː.si.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /karˈkʰe̝.si.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /karˈçi.si.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /karˈçi.si.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /karˈçi.si.on/

Noun

κᾰρχήσῐον • (karkhḗsion) n (genitive κᾰρχησῐ́ου); second declension

1. drinking-cup narrower in the middle than the top and bottom
2. (nautical) masthead of a ship, through which the halyards worked
3. triangular instrument used in carpentry
4. cage or chamber in a torsion-engine
5. crane for unloading ships

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κᾰρχήσῐον; τοῦ κᾰρχησῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κᾰρχήσῐον tò karkhḗsion	τὼ κᾰρχησῐ́ω tṑ karkhēsíō	τᾰ̀ κᾰρχήσῐᾰ tà karkhḗsia
Genitive	τοῦ κᾰρχησῐ́ου toû karkhēsíou	τοῖν κᾰρχησῐ́οιν toîn karkhēsíoin	τῶν κᾰρχησῐ́ων tôn karkhēsíōn
Dative	τῷ κᾰρχησῐ́ῳ tôi karkhēsíōi	τοῖν κᾰρχησῐ́οιν toîn karkhēsíoin	τοῖς κᾰρχησῐ́οις toîs karkhēsíois
Accusative	τὸ κᾰρχήσῐον tò karkhḗsion	τὼ κᾰρχησῐ́ω tṑ karkhēsíō	τᾰ̀ κᾰρχήσῐᾰ tà karkhḗsia
Vocative	κᾰρχήσῐον karkhḗsion	κᾰρχησῐ́ω karkhēsíō	κᾰρχήσῐᾰ karkhḗsia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• καρχήσιος (karkhḗsios)

Descendants

• → Latin: carchēsium

Further reading

• “καρχήσιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “καρχήσιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• καρχήσιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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