κινύρα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew כִּנּוֹר (kinnōr) and adapted to κινυρός (kinurós, “wailing”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ki.ný.raː/ → /ciˈny.ra/ → /ciˈni.ra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ki.ný.raː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kiˈny.ra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ciˈny.ra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ciˈny.ra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈni.ra/

Noun

κῐνύρᾱ • (kinúrā) f (genitive κῐνύρᾱς); first declension

1. kinnor or harp of David

Declension

First declension of ἡ κῐνῠ́ρᾱ; τῆς κῐνῠ́ρᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κῐνῠ́ρᾱ hē kinúrā	τὼ κῐνῠ́ρᾱ tṑ kinúrā	αἱ κῐνῠ́ραι hai kinúrai
Genitive	τῆς κῐνῠ́ρᾱς tês kinúrās	τοῖν κῐνῠ́ραιν toîn kinúrain	τῶν κῐνῠρῶν tôn kinurôn
Dative	τῇ κῐνῠ́ρᾳ têi kinúrāi	τοῖν κῐνῠ́ραιν toîn kinúrain	ταῖς κῐνῠ́ραις taîs kinúrais
Accusative	τὴν κῐνῠ́ρᾱν tḕn kinúrān	τὼ κῐνῠ́ρᾱ tṑ kinúrā	τᾱ̀ς κῐνῠ́ρᾱς tā̀s kinúrās
Vocative	κῐνῠ́ρᾱ kinúrā	κῐνῠ́ρᾱ kinúrā	κῐνῠ́ραι kinúrai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Late Latin: cinyra

Further reading

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