χολέρα
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
A medical expression. Formally it may be compared with ὑστέρα (hustéra, “uterus, womb”) and names of diseases like ἴκτερος (íkteros, “jaundice”) and ὕδερος (húderos, “dropsy”). Perhaps, this word is a substantivization from unattested *χολερός (*kholerós), with shift of accent. According to Beekes, a basic derivation is more likely from χολή (kholḗ, “gall, bile”) than from χολάς (kholás, “entrails, guts”), but a Pre-Greek origin cannot be ruled out. Irish galar (“sickness, illness”) has to be kept separate.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰo.lé.ra/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kʰoˈle.ra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /xoˈle.ra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /xoˈle.ra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /xoˈle.ra/
Noun edit
χολέρᾰ • (kholéra) f (genitive χολέρᾱς); first declension
- cholera, a disease in which the humors of the body are violently discharged by vomiting and stool
- (in general) vomit, nausea
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ χολέρᾰ hē kholéra |
τὼ χολέρᾱ tṑ kholérā |
αἱ χολέραι hai kholérai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς χολέρᾱς tês kholérās |
τοῖν χολέραιν toîn kholérain |
τῶν χολερῶν tôn kholerôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ χολέρᾳ têi kholérāi |
τοῖν χολέραιν toîn kholérain |
ταῖς χολέραις taîs kholérais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν χολέρᾰν tḕn kholéran |
τὼ χολέρᾱ tṑ kholérā |
τᾱ̀ς χολέρᾱς tā̀s kholérās | ||||||||||
Vocative | χολέρᾰ kholéra |
χολέρᾱ kholérā |
χολέραι kholérai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “χολέρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- χολέρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “χολέρα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1641
Greek edit
Etymology edit
Ancient Greek χολέρα (kholéra)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
χολέρα • (choléra) f (uncountable)
Declension edit
χολέρα
case \ number | singular |
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nominative | χολέρα • |
genitive | χολέρας • |
accusative | χολέρα • |
vocative | χολέρα • |
Further reading edit
- χολέρα - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.
- χολέρα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el