χέραδος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Clearly related to χαράδρα (kharádra, “gorge, ravine; torrent”) and thus from Pre-Greek. The older connection with χαράσσω (kharássō, “to carve, engrave”) must be given up.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰé.ra.dos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰe.ra.dos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈçe.ra.ðos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈçe.ra.ðos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈçe.ra.ðos/

Noun

χέρᾰδος • (khérados) n (genitive χερᾰ́δεος); third declension

silt, debris, gravel and rubbish, brought down by torrents

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ χέρᾰδος; τοῦ χερᾰ́δεος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ χέρᾰδος tò khérados	τὼ χερᾰ́δεε tṑ kherádee	τᾰ̀ χερᾰ́δεᾰ tà kherádea
Genitive	τοῦ χερᾰ́δεος toû kherádeos	τοῖν χερᾰδέοιν toîn kheradéoin	τῶν χερᾰδέων tôn kheradéōn
Dative	τῷ χερᾰ́δεῐ̈ tôi kherádeï	τοῖν χερᾰδέοιν toîn kheradéoin	τοῖς χερᾰ́δεσῐ / χερᾰ́δεσῐν toîs kherádesi(n)
Accusative	τὸ χέρᾰδος tò khérados	τὼ χερᾰ́δεε tṑ kherádee	τᾰ̀ χερᾰ́δεᾰ tà kherádea
Vocative	χέρᾰδος khérados	χερᾰ́δεε kherádee	χερᾰ́δεᾰ kherádea
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

χεράς (kherás, “pebble, gravel”)

“χέραδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“χέραδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
χέραδος 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