χήρ

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰḗr (“hedgehog”) and identical with Latin ēr (“hedgehog”).

χήρ • (khḗr) m (genitive χηρός); third declension

Third declension of ὁ χήρ; τοῦ χηρός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ χήρ ho khḗr	τὼ χῆρε tṑ khêre	οἱ χῆρες hoi khêres
Genitive	τοῦ χηρός toû khērós	τοῖν χηροῖν toîn khēroîn	τῶν χηρῶν tôn khērôn
Dative	τῷ χηρῐ́ tōî khērĭ́	τοῖν χηροῖν toîn khēroîn	τοῖς χηρσῐ́ / χηρσῐ́ν toîs khērsĭ́(n)
Accusative	τὸν χῆρᾰ tòn khêră	τὼ χῆρε tṑ khêre	τοὺς χῆρᾰς toùs khêrăs
Vocative	χήρ khḗr	χῆρε khêre	χῆρες khêres
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“χήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
χήρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN