καρχήσιον
Ancient Greek
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editForeign word of unknown origin. Maybe from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kar.kʰɛ̌ː.si.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /karˈkʰe̝.si.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /karˈçi.si.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /karˈçi.si.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /karˈçi.si.on/
Noun
editκᾰρχήσῐον • (karkhḗsion) n (genitive κᾰρχησῐ́ου); second declension
- drinking-cup narrower in the middle than the top and bottom
- (nautical) masthead of a ship, through which the halyards worked
- triangular instrument used in carpentry
- cage or chamber in a torsion-engine
- crane for unloading ships
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
edit- καρχήσιος (karkhḗsios)
Descendants
edit- → Latin: carchēsium
Further reading
edit- “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
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- Ancient Greek neuter nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the second declension
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