κλυστήρ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κλύζω (klúzō, “to wash”) +‎ -τήρ (-tḗr).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /klys.tɛ̌ːr/ → /klysˈtir/ → /klisˈtir/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /klys.tɛ̌ːr/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /klysˈte̝r/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /klysˈtir/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /klysˈtir/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /klisˈtir/

Noun

κλῠστήρ • (klustḗr) m (genitive κλῠστῆρος); third declension

1. (medicine) a syringe, a clyster-pipe

Declension

Third declension of ὁ κλῠστήρ; τοῦ κλῠστῆρος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κλῠστήρ ho klustḗr	τὼ κλῠστῆρε tṑ klustêre	οἱ κλῠστῆρες hoi klustêres
Genitive	τοῦ κλῠστῆρος toû klustêros	τοῖν κλῠστήροιν toîn klustḗroin	τῶν κλῠστήρων tôn klustḗrōn
Dative	τῷ κλῠστῆρῐ tôi klustêri	τοῖν κλῠστήροιν toîn klustḗroin	τοῖς κλῠστῆρσῐ / κλῠστῆρσῐν toîs klustêrsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν κλῠστῆρᾰ tòn klustêra	τὼ κλῠστῆρε tṑ klustêre	τοὺς κλῠστῆρᾰς toùs klustêras
Vocative	κλῠστήρ klustḗr	κλῠστῆρε klustêre	κλῠστῆρες klustêres
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: clyster
• → French: clystère
• Greek: κλυστήρας (klystíras)

Further reading

• “κλυστήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κλυστήρ 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
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • syringe idem, page 851.