κάτοπτρον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the stem of κατόψομαι (katópsomai) (root *h₃ekʷ- (“to see”)), future of καθοράω (kathoráō, “to behold”) + -τρον (-tron).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ká.top.tron/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈka.top.tron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈka.top.tron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈka.top.tron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈka.top.tron/
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ κάτοπτρον tò kátoptron |
τὼ κατόπτρω tṑ katóptrō |
τᾰ̀ κάτοπτρᾰ tà kátoptra | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κατόπτρου toû katóptrou |
τοῖν κατόπτροιν toîn katóptroin |
τῶν κατόπτρων tôn katóptrōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κατόπτρῳ tôi katóptrōi |
τοῖν κατόπτροιν toîn katóptroin |
τοῖς κατόπτροις toîs katóptrois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ κάτοπτρον tò kátoptron |
τὼ κατόπτρω tṑ katóptrō |
τᾰ̀ κάτοπτρᾰ tà kátoptra | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κάτοπτρον kátoptron |
κατόπτρω katóptrō |
κάτοπτρᾰ kátoptra | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κατοπτρίζω (katoptrízō)
- κατοπτρικός (katoptrikós)
Descendants
- Greek: κάτοπτρο (kátoptro)
Further reading
- “κάτοπτρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κάτοπτρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κάτοπτρον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κάτοπτρον 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
- (no entry for the specified headword) Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “κάτοπτρον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- glass idem, page 361.
- looking glass idem, page 499.
- mirror idem, page 532.
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