κέρας

From Proto-Hellenic *kérats, probably remodeled from an earlier s-stem *kéras (like κᾰ́ρᾱ (kắrā), κᾰ́ρηνον (kắrēnon), κρᾱνίον (krāníon)), as preserved in e.g. κερασ-φόρος (keras-phóros, “with a horn”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“head, top; front of the skull; horn”);^[1] see there for more. An older etymology supposes Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-n̥t-.

κέρας • (kéras) n (genitive κέρᾱτος or κέρᾰος or κέρως); third declension

1. horn (of an animal)
2. horn as a material, or anything made of horn, such as a bow.
3. (music) horn (musical instrument)
4. arm or branch of a river
5. the side branch (either left or right) of a military array for battle.
6. (metonymic, horn of a powerful animal as a tool) horn used in biblical interpretation as representing a person as focus of a group for power.

κέρᾰς (kérăs) was sometimes declined using the stem κέρᾰτ- (kérăt-) and sometimes the stem κέρᾰ- (kéră-). Both are shown below.

• “κέρας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κέρας”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κέρας”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κέρας in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• κέρας in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “κέρας”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2768 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• κέρας 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
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • antler idem, page 32.
  • arm idem, page 40.
  • bend idem, page 73.
  • branch idem, page 93.
  • bugle idem, page 103.
  • column idem, page 144.
  • flank idem, page 325.
  • fork idem, page 338.
  • horn idem, page 406.
  • reach idem, page 675.
  • wing idem, page 981.

From Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras).

• IPA^(key): /ˈce.ɾas/

κέρας • (kéras) n (plural κέρατα)

1. (anatomy) horn
2. (music) horn (wind instrument)

• κέρατο n (kérato, “horn”)
• κερατίνη f (keratíni, “keratin”)
• κερατάς m (keratás, “cuckold”)
• κέρας της Αμάλθειας n (kéras tis Amáltheias, “cornucopia, horn of plenty”)

• κέρας on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el