καθετήρ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From καθίημι (kathíēmi, “to let down, descend”) + -τήρ (-tḗr).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ka.tʰe.tɛ̌ːr/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ka.tʰeˈte̝r/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ka.θeˈtir/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ka.θeˈtir/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ka.θeˈtir/
Noun
κᾰθετήρ • (kăthetḗr) m (genitive κᾰθετῆρος); third declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ κᾰθετήρ ho kăthetḗr |
τὼ κᾰθετῆρε tṑ kăthetêre |
οἱ κᾰθετῆρες hoi kăthetêres | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κᾰθετῆρος toû kăthetêros |
τοῖν κᾰθετήροιν toîn kăthetḗroin |
τῶν κᾰθετήρων tôn kăthetḗrōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κᾰθετῆρῐ tōî kăthetêrĭ |
τοῖν κᾰθετήροιν toîn kăthetḗroin |
τοῖς κᾰθετῆρσῐ / κᾰθετῆρσῐν toîs kăthetêrsĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν κᾰθετῆρᾰ tòn kăthetêră |
τὼ κᾰθετῆρε tṑ kăthetêre |
τοὺς κᾰθετῆρᾰς toùs kăthetêrăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κᾰθετήρ kăthetḗr |
κᾰθετῆρε kăthetêre |
κᾰθετῆρες kăthetêres | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Arabic: قَثْطَرَة (qaṯṭara), قَسْطَر (qasṭar), قَسْطَرَة (qasṭara)
- → English: catheter
- → French: cathéter
- Greek: καθετήρας (kathetíras)
Further reading
- “καθετήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- καθετήρ 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
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.