κουρεῖον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κουρά (kourá, “cropping of the hair”) +‎ -εῖον (-eîon).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kuː.rêː.on/ → /kuˈri.on/ → /kuˈri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kuː.rêː.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kuˈri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kuˈri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kuˈri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kuˈri.on/

Noun

κουρεῖον • (koureîon) n (genitive κουρείου); second declension

1. barbershop, barber's shop
   • 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 1441
   • 388 BCE, Aristophanes, Plutus 338

Declension

Second declension of τὸ κουρεῖον; τοῦ κουρείου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κουρεῖον tò koureîon	τὼ κουρείω tṑ koureíō	τᾰ̀ κουρεῖᾰ tà koureîa
Genitive	τοῦ κουρείου toû koureíou	τοῖν κουρείοιν toîn koureíoin	τῶν κουρείων tôn koureíōn
Dative	τῷ κουρείῳ tôi koureíōi	τοῖν κουρείοιν toîn koureíoin	τοῖς κουρείοις toîs koureíois
Accusative	τὸ κουρεῖον tò koureîon	τὼ κουρείω tṑ koureíō	τᾰ̀ κουρεῖᾰ tà koureîa
Vocative	κουρεῖον koureîon	κουρείω koureíō	κουρεῖᾰ koureîa
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: κουρείο (koureío)

Further reading

• “κουρεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κουρεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κουρεῖον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κουρεῖον - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.