χηραμός
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- χειραμός (kheiramós), χέραβος (khérabos), χηραμίς (khēramís)
Etymology
According to Beekes, it is clearly a Pre-Greek word, in view of the several variants.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰɛː.ra.mós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kʰe̝.raˈmos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /çi.raˈmos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /çi.raˈmos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /çi.raˈmos/
Noun
χηρᾰμός • (khērămós) f (genitive χηρᾰμοῦ); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ χηρᾰμός hē khērămós |
τὼ χηρᾰμώ tṑ khērămṓ |
αἱ χηρᾰμοί hai khērămoí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς χηρᾰμοῦ tês khērămoû |
τοῖν χηρᾰμοῖν toîn khērămoîn |
τῶν χηρᾰμῶν tôn khērămôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ χηρᾰμῷ tēî khērămōî |
τοῖν χηρᾰμοῖν toîn khērămoîn |
ταῖς χηρᾰμοῖς taîs khērămoîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν χηρᾰμόν tḕn khērămón |
τὼ χηρᾰμώ tṑ khērămṓ |
τᾱ̀ς χηρᾰμούς tā̀s khērămoús | ||||||||||
| Vocative | χηρᾰμέ khērămé |
χηρᾰμώ khērămṓ |
χηρᾰμοί khērămoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- χηραμοδύτης (khēramodútēs)
- χηραμόθεν (khēramóthen)
Further reading
- “χηραμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χηραμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “χηραμός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- χηραμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- χηραμός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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