κεράτιον
Ancient Greek
FWOTD – 19 April 2015
Etymology
From κέρᾰς (kéras, “horn”) + -ῐον (-ion, diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ke.rǎː.ti.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kɛˈra.ti.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /keˈra.ti.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ceˈra.ti.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ceˈra.ti.on/
Noun
κερᾱ́τῐον • (kerā́tion) n (genitive κερᾱτῐ́ου); second declension
- small horn
- (zoology) antenna of the cerambycid or of the hermit crab
- (in the plural) curved ends of the womb
- (music) a musical instrument (perhaps a fife or clarionet)
- carat, 1/1728 of a pound
- (botany) carob, Ceratonia siliqua
- fruit of the carob
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ κερᾱ́τῐον tò kerā́tion |
τὼ κερᾱτῐ́ω tṑ kerātíō |
τᾰ̀ κερᾱ́τῐᾰ tà kerā́tia | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κερᾱτῐ́ου toû kerātíou |
τοῖν κερᾱτῐ́οιν toîn kerātíoin |
τῶν κερᾱτῐ́ων tôn kerātíōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κερᾱτῐ́ῳ tôi kerātíōi |
τοῖν κερᾱτῐ́οιν toîn kerātíoin |
τοῖς κερᾱτῐ́οις toîs kerātíois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ κερᾱ́τῐον tò kerā́tion |
τὼ κερᾱτῐ́ω tṑ kerātíō |
τᾰ̀ κερᾱ́τῐᾰ tà kerā́tia | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κερᾱ́τῐον kerā́tion |
κερᾱτῐ́ω kerātíō |
κερᾱ́τῐᾰ kerā́tia | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Synonyms
- (carob, Ceratonia siliqua): κερᾱτωνῐ́ᾱ (kerātōníā), κερωνῐ́ᾱ (kerōníā), κερᾱτέᾱ (kerātéā), κερᾱτῐ́ᾱ (kerātíā)
- (carob fruit): κερᾱ́τῐᾰ (kerā́tia)
Descendants
References
- κεράτιον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κεράτιον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κεράτιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G2769 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- κεράτιον in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
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