κέντρον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ḱent-r-om (“pointed tool”), from *ḱent- (“to prick; point”); direct cognate with Albanian çandër (“forked pole”) and probably Old Armenian սանտր (santr), սանդր (sandr, “comb”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kén.tron/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈken.tron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈcen.tron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈcen.tron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈcen.dron/
Noun
κέντρον • (kéntron) n (genitive κέντρου); second declension
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ κέντρον tò kéntron |
τὼ κέντρω tṑ kéntrō |
τᾰ̀ κέντρᾰ tà kéntra | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κέντρου toû kéntrou |
τοῖν κέντροιν toîn kéntroin |
τῶν κέντρων tôn kéntrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κέντρῳ tôi kéntrōi |
τοῖν κέντροιν toîn kéntroin |
τοῖς κέντροις toîs kéntrois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ κέντρον tò kéntron |
τὼ κέντρω tṑ kéntrō |
τᾰ̀ κέντρᾰ tà kéntra | ||||||||||
Vocative | κέντρον kéntron |
κέντρω kéntrō |
κέντρᾰ kéntra | ||||||||||
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Related terms
- κεστός (kestós)
Descendants
Further reading
- “κέντρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κέντρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κέντρον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κέντρον 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
- κέντρον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “κέντρον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2759 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- κέντρον in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- barb idem, page 62.
- goad idem, page 365.
- incentive idem, page 427.
- incitement idem, page 428.
- pang idem, page 591.
- peg idem, page 602.
- point idem, page 623.
- prick idem, page 640.
- rowel idem, page 723.
- smart idem, page 786.
- spur idem, page 806.
- stimulant idem, page 817.
- stimulus idem, page 817.
- sting idem, page 817.
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