χαράδρα
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
The older connection with χαράσσω (kharássō, “to sharpen, to whet”) must be given up. Related to χέραδος (khérados, “debris, gravel”) and thus probably from Pre-Greek, in view of the variation.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰa.rá.dra/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kʰaˈra.dra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /xaˈra.ðra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /xaˈra.ðra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /xaˈra.ðra/
Noun edit
χᾰρᾰ́δρα • (kharádra) f (genitive χᾰρᾰ́δρᾱς); first declension
- torrent, mountain stream
- Synonym: ἄναυρος (ánauros)
- riverbed
- gorge, gully, ravine
- Synonym: φάραγξ (pháranx)
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ χᾰρᾰ́δρᾰ hē kharádra |
τὼ χᾰρᾰ́δρᾱ tṑ kharádrā |
αἱ χᾰρᾰ́δραι hai kharádrai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς χᾰρᾰ́δρᾱς tês kharádrās |
τοῖν χᾰρᾰ́δραιν toîn kharádrain |
τῶν χᾰρᾰδρῶν tôn kharadrôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ χᾰρᾰ́δρᾳ têi kharádrāi |
τοῖν χᾰρᾰ́δραιν toîn kharádrain |
ταῖς χᾰρᾰ́δραις taîs kharádrais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν χᾰρᾰ́δρᾰν tḕn kharádran |
τὼ χᾰρᾰ́δρᾱ tṑ kharádrā |
τᾱ̀ς χᾰρᾰ́δρᾱς tā̀s kharádrās | ||||||||||
Vocative | χᾰρᾰ́δρᾰ kharádra |
χᾰρᾰ́δρᾱ kharádrā |
χᾰρᾰ́δραι kharádrai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
- χαραδραῖος (kharadraîos)
- χαράδρεών (kharádreṓn)
- χαραδρήεις (kharadrḗeis)
- χαράδριον (kharádrion)
- χαραδρόομαι (kharadróomai)
- Χαραδροῦς (Kharadroûs)
- χαραδρώδης (kharadrṓdēs)
Descendants edit
- Greek: χαράδρα (charádra)
Further reading edit
- “χαράδρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χαράδρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- χαράδρα 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
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
χαράδρα • (charádra) f (plural χαράδρες)
Declension edit
declension of χαράδρα
Synonyms edit
Further reading edit
- χαράδρα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el