κλιμακτήρ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κλῖμαξ (klîmax) +‎ -τήρ (-tḗr).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kliː.mak.tɛ̌ːr/ → /kli.makˈtir/ → /kli.makˈtir/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kliː.mak.tɛ̌ːr/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kli.makˈte̝r/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kli.makˈtir/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kli.makˈtir/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kli.makˈtir/

Noun

κλῑμᾰκτήρ • (klīmaktḗr) m (genitive κλῑμᾰκτῆρος); third declension

1. rung of a ladder
2. (astrology) critical point in human life

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ κλῑμᾰκτήρ; τοῦ κλῑμᾰκτῆρος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κλῑμᾰκτήρ ho klīmaktḗr	τὼ κλῑμᾰκτῆρε tṑ klīmaktêre	οἱ κλῑμᾰκτῆρες hoi klīmaktêres
Genitive	τοῦ κλῑμᾰκτῆρος toû klīmaktêros	τοῖν κλῑμᾰκτήροιν toîn klīmaktḗroin	τῶν κλῑμᾰκτήρων tôn klīmaktḗrōn
Dative	τῷ κλῑμᾰκτῆρῐ tôi klīmaktêri	τοῖν κλῑμᾰκτήροιν toîn klīmaktḗroin	τοῖς κλῑμᾰκτῆρσῐ / κλῑμᾰκτῆρσῐν toîs klīmaktêrsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν κλῑμᾰκτῆρᾰ tòn klīmaktêra	τὼ κλῑμᾰκτῆρε tṑ klīmaktêre	τοὺς κλῑμᾰκτῆρᾰς toùs klīmaktêras
Vocative	κλῑμᾰκτήρ klīmaktḗr	κλῑμᾰκτῆρε klīmaktêre	κλῑμᾰκτῆρες klīmaktêres
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κλῑμᾰκτηρίζω (klīmaktērízō)
• κλῑμᾰκτηρῐκός (klīmaktērikós)

 

References

• “κλιμακτήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κλιμακτήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κλιμακτήρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G5481 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • gangway idem, page 353.
  • plank idem, page 617.
  • rung idem, page 727.
  • step idem, page 815.