καῖρος
See also: καιρός
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
According to Beekes, “a technical expression of unclear meaning and therefore etymologically difficult.” According to Petersson, it is related to Old Armenian սարիք (sarikʻ, “sling, rope”) as well as to սարդ (sard, “spider”), while Cimochowski connected it with Albanian thur (“twine, weave”). All these connections derive from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“to plait, weave”).
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kâi̯.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkɛ.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈcɛ.ros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈce.ros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈce.ros/
Noun edit
καῖρος • (kaîros) m (genitive καίρου); second declension
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ καῖρος ho kaîros |
τὼ καίρω tṑ kaírō |
οἱ καῖροι hoi kaîroi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ καίρου toû kaírou |
τοῖν καίροιν toîn kaíroin |
τῶν καίρων tôn kaírōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ καίρῳ tôi kaírōi |
τοῖν καίροιν toîn kaíroin |
τοῖς καίροις toîs kaírois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν καῖρον tòn kaîron |
τὼ καίρω tṑ kaírō |
τοὺς καίρους toùs kaírous | ||||||||||
Vocative | καῖρε kaîre |
καίρω kaírō |
καῖροι kaîroi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “καῖρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “καῖρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- καῖρος 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