κύριθρα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek and related to κυριττοί (kurittoí, “players who wear wooden masks”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ký.ri.tʰra/ → /ˈcy.ri.θra/ → /ˈci.ri.θra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ký.ri.tʰra/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈky.ri.tʰra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.ri.θra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.ri.θra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.ri.θra/

Noun

κῠ́ρῐθρᾰ • (kúrithra) n pl (genitive κῠρῐ́θρων); second declension

1. wooden masks

Declension

Second declension of τᾰ̀ κῠ́ρῐθρᾰ; τῶν κῠρῐ́θρων (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	τᾰ̀ κῠ́ρῐθρᾰ tà kúrithra
Genitive	τῶν κῠρῐ́θρων tôn kuríthrōn
Dative	τοῖς κῠρῐ́θροις toîs kuríthrois
Accusative	τᾰ̀ κῠ́ρῐθρᾰ tà kúrithra
Vocative	κῠ́ρῐθρᾰ kúrithra
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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