κάστωρ
See also: Κάστωρ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Doric Greek κάστον (káston, “wood”). See also Sanskrit कस्तूरी (kastūrī, “musk”)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kás.tɔːr/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkas.tor/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkas.tor/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkas.tor/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkas.tor/
Noun
κάστωρ • (kástōr) m (genitive κάστορος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ κάστωρ ho kástōr |
τὼ κάστορε tṑ kástore |
οἱ κάστορες hoi kástores | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κάστορος toû kástoros |
τοῖν καστόροιν toîn kastóroin |
τῶν καστόρων tôn kastórōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κάστορῐ tôi kástori |
τοῖν καστόροιν toîn kastóroin |
τοῖς κάστορσῐ(ν) toîs kástorsi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν κάστορᾰ tòn kástora |
τὼ κάστορε tṑ kástore |
τοὺς κάστορᾰς toùs kástoras | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κάστορ kástor |
κάστορε kástore |
κάστορες kástores | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Descendants
- → Classical Syriac: ܩܣܛܘܪ (qasṭor)
Further reading
- κάστωρ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κάστωρ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κάστωρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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