κέδρος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown. Perhaps a Mediterranean substrate borrowing. Probably connected with Latin citrus.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ké.dros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkɛ.dros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈke.ðros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈce.ðros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈce.ðros/
Noun
κέδρος • (kédros) f (genitive κέδρου); second declension
- a tree of one of several species of Juniperus.
- a similar tree, such as the cedar.
- anything made of such wood
- cedar-oil
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ κέδρος hē kédros |
τὼ κέδρω tṑ kédrō |
αἱ κέδροι hai kédroi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς κέδρου tês kédrou |
τοῖν κέδροιν toîn kédroin |
τῶν κέδρων tôn kédrōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ κέδρῳ têi kédrōi |
τοῖν κέδροιν toîn kédroin |
ταῖς κέδροις taîs kédrois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν κέδρον tḕn kédron |
τὼ κέδρω tṑ kédrō |
τᾱ̀ς κέδρους tā̀s kédrous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κέδρε kédre |
κέδρω kédrō |
κέδροι kédroi | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Descendants
Further reading
- κέδρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κέδρος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κέδρος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κέδρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κέδρος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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
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