κλεψύδρα

Ancient Greek

From κλέπτω (kléptō, “steal”) +‎ ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”), literally “water thief”.

κλεψῠ́δρᾱ • (klepsŭ́drā) f (genitive κλεψῠ́δρᾱς); first declension

First declension of ἡ κλεψῠ́δρᾱ; τῆς κλεψῠ́δρᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κλεψῠ́δρᾱ hē klepsŭ́drā	τὼ κλεψῠ́δρᾱ tṑ klepsŭ́drā	αἱ κλεψῠ́δραι hai klepsŭ́drai
Genitive	τῆς κλεψῠ́δρᾱς tês klepsŭ́drās	τοῖν κλεψῠ́δραιν toîn klepsŭ́drain	τῶν κλεψῠδρῶν tôn klepsŭdrôn
Dative	τῇ κλεψῠ́δρᾳ tēî klepsŭ́drāi	τοῖν κλεψῠ́δραιν toîn klepsŭ́drain	ταῖς κλεψῠ́δραις taîs klepsŭ́drais
Accusative	τὴν κλεψῠ́δρᾱν tḕn klepsŭ́drān	τὼ κλεψῠ́δρᾱ tṑ klepsŭ́drā	τᾱ̀ς κλεψῠ́δρᾱς tā̀s klepsŭ́drās
Vocative	κλεψῠ́δρᾱ klepsŭ́drā	κλεψῠ́δρᾱ klepsŭ́drā	κλεψῠ́δραι klepsŭ́drai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“κλεψύδρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“κλεψύδρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
κλεψύδρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- clock idem, page 138.
- timepiece idem, page 876.

κλεψύδρα • (klepsýdra) f