κηραφίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, of Pre-Greek origin and related to κάραβος (kárabos, “prickly crustacean”), κεράμβηλον (kerámbēlon, “kind of beetle”) and κεράμβυξ (kerámbux, “cerambyx”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɛː.ra.pʰís/ → /ci.raˈɸis/ → /ci.raˈfis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɛː.ra.pʰís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ke̝.raˈpʰis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ci.raˈɸis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ci.raˈfis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ci.raˈfis/

Noun

κηρᾰφῐ́ς • (kēraphís) f (genitive κηρᾰφῐ́δος); third declension

1. kind of locust

Declension

Third declension of ἡ κηρᾰφῐ́ς; τῆς κηρᾰφῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κηρᾰφῐ́ς hē kēraphís	τὼ κηρᾰφῐ́δε tṑ kēraphíde	αἱ κηρᾰφῐ́δες hai kēraphídes
Genitive	τῆς κηρᾰφῐ́δος tês kēraphídos	τοῖν κηρᾰφῐ́δοιν toîn kēraphídoin	τῶν κηρᾰφῐ́δων tôn kēraphídōn
Dative	τῇ κηρᾰφῐ́δῐ têi kēraphídi	τοῖν κηρᾰφῐ́δοιν toîn kēraphídoin	ταῖς κηρᾰφῐ́σῐ / κηρᾰφῐ́σῐν taîs kēraphísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κηρᾰφῐ́δᾰ tḕn kēraphída	τὼ κηρᾰφῐ́δε tṑ kēraphíde	τᾱ̀ς κηρᾰφῐ́δᾰς tā̀s kēraphídas
Vocative	κηρᾰφῐ́ς kēraphís	κηρᾰφῐ́δε kēraphíde	κηρᾰφῐ́δες kēraphídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Further reading

• “κηραφίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κηραφίς 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