Κήρ
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- Κᾶρ (Kâr) — Aeolic
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kɛ̌ːr/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ke̝r/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /cir/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /cir/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /cir/
Proper noun
Κήρ • (Kḗr) f (genitive Κηρός); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ Κήρ hē Kḗr |
τὼ Κῆρε tṑ Kêre |
αἱ Κῆρες hai Kêres | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς Κηρός tês Kērós |
τοῖν Κηροῖν toîn Kēroîn |
τῶν Κηρῶν tôn Kērôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ Κηρῐ́ tēî Kērĭ́ |
τοῖν Κηροῖν toîn Kēroîn |
ταῖς Κηρσῐ́ / Κηρσῐ́ν taîs Kērsĭ́(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν Κῆρᾰ tḕn Kêră |
τὼ Κῆρε tṑ Kêre |
τᾱ̀ς Κῆρᾰς tā̀s Kêrăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | Κήρ Kḗr |
Κῆρε Kêre |
Κῆρες Kêres | ||||||||||
| Notes: |
| ||||||||||||
Descendants
- Greek: Κηρ (Kir); Κήρα (Kíra)
Further reading
- “Κήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Κήρ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,011