κρόταφος
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Usually derived from κρότος (krótos, “beating”) as "beating of the veins in the temples". Furnée connects it with κόρση (kórsē, “temple”). Maybe from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kró.ta.pʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkro.ta.pʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkro.ta.ɸos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkro.ta.fos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkro.ta.fos/
Noun edit
κρότᾰφος • (krótaphos) m (genitive κροτάφου); second declension
- (anatomy) temple, side of the forehead
- Synonym: κόρση (kórsē)
- (in general) side, edge, profil
- slope of a mountain
- back of a book
- edge or narrow side of a stele
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κρότᾰφος ho krótaphos |
τὼ κροτᾰ́φω tṑ krotáphō |
οἱ κρότᾰφοι hoi krótaphoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κροτᾰ́φου toû krotáphou |
τοῖν κροτᾰ́φοιν toîn krotáphoin |
τῶν κροτᾰ́φων tôn krotáphōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κροτᾰ́φῳ tôi krotáphōi |
τοῖν κροτᾰ́φοιν toîn krotáphoin |
τοῖς κροτᾰ́φοις toîs krotáphois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κρότᾰφον tòn krótaphon |
τὼ κροτᾰ́φω tṑ krotáphō |
τοὺς κροτᾰ́φους toùs krotáphous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κρότᾰφε krótaphe |
κροτᾰ́φω krotáphō |
κρότᾰφοι krótaphoi | ||||||||||
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Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | κρότᾰφος krótaphos |
κροτᾰ́φω krotáphō |
κρότᾰφοι krótaphoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | κροτᾰ́φου / κροτᾰφοῖο / κροτᾰ́φοιο / κροτᾰφόο / κροτᾰ́φοο krotáphou / krotaphoîo / krotáphoio / krotaphóo / krotáphoo |
κροτᾰ́φοιῐν krotáphoiin |
κροτᾰ́φων krotáphōn | ||||||||||
Dative | κροτᾰ́φῳ krotáphōi |
κροτᾰ́φοιῐν krotáphoiin |
κροτᾰ́φοισῐ / κροτᾰ́φοισῐν / κροτᾰ́φοις krotáphoisi(n) / krotáphois | ||||||||||
Accusative | κρότᾰφον krótaphon |
κροτᾰ́φω krotáphō |
κροτᾰ́φους krotáphous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κρότᾰφε krótaphe |
κροτᾰ́φω krotáphō |
κρότᾰφοι krótaphoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
- κροταφίζω (krotaphízō)
- κροτάφιος (krotáphios)
- κροταφίς (krotaphís)
- κροταφιστής (krotaphistḗs)
- κροταφίτης (krotaphítēs)
- πολιοκρόταφος (poliokrótaphos)
Descendants edit
- Greek: κρόταφος (krótafos)
Further reading edit
- “κρόταφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κρόταφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κρόταφος 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
Greek edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek κρόταφος (krótaphos, “side of head, temple”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
κρόταφος • (krótafos) m (plural κρόταφοι)
Declension edit
declension of κρόταφος
Related terms edit
- κρανίο m (kranío, “cranium, skull”)