κέρχνος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, perhaps of onomatopoeic origin, like Latin hirriō (“I snarl”) and English yarr. Alternatively of Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kér.kʰnos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈker.kʰnos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈcer.xnos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈcer.xnos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈcer.xnos/
Noun
κέρχνος • (kérkhnos) m (genitive κέρχνου); second declension
- rough excrescence
- hoarseness, roughness of the throat
- silver dust
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ κέρχνος ho kérkhnos |
τὼ κέρχνω tṑ kérkhnō |
οἱ κέρχνοι hoi kérkhnoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κέρχνου toû kérkhnou |
τοῖν κέρχνοιν toîn kérkhnoin |
τῶν κέρχνων tôn kérkhnōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κέρχνῳ tôi kérkhnōi |
τοῖν κέρχνοιν toîn kérkhnoin |
τοῖς κέρχνοις toîs kérkhnois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν κέρχνον tòn kérkhnon |
τὼ κέρχνω tṑ kérkhnō |
τοὺς κέρχνους toùs kérkhnous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κέρχνε kérkhne |
κέρχνω kérkhnō |
κέρχνοι kérkhnoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- αἱμόκερχνον (haimókerkhnon)
- ἄκερχνος (ákerkhnos)
- κερχαλέος (kerkhaléos)
- κερχνασμός (kerkhnasmós)
- κερχνόομαι (kerkhnóomai)
- κερχνόω (kerkhnóō)
- κερχνώδης (kerkhnṓdēs)
- κερχνώματα (kerkhnṓmata)
- κερχνωτός (kerkhnōtós)
Further reading
- “κέρχνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κέρχνος 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
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