κηρός

See also: Κηρός and κῆρος

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation
 

Etymology 1

A foreign loan from a substrate language, cognate with Latin cēra and Albanian qiri,[1] and possibly also with Lithuanian korys, Latvian kāre.[2]

Noun

κηρός • (kērós) m (genitive κηροῦ); second declension

  1. beeswax, honeycomb
  2. (in the plural) wax tapers
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ κηρός; τοῦ κηροῦ (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ κηρός
ho kērós		 τὼ κηρώ
tṑ kērṓ		 οἱ κηροί
hoi kēroí
Genitive τοῦ κηροῦ
toû kēroû		 τοῖν κηροῖν
toîn kēroîn		 τῶν κηρῶν
tôn kērôn
Dative τῷ κηρῷ
tôi kērôi		 τοῖν κηροῖν
toîn kēroîn		 τοῖς κηροῖς
toîs kēroîs
Accusative τὸν κηρόν
tòn kērón		 τὼ κηρώ
tṑ kērṓ		 τοὺς κηρούς
toùs kēroús
Vocative κηρέ
kēré		 κηρώ
kērṓ		 κηροί
kēroí
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

κηρός • (kērós)

  1. genitive singular of κήρ (kḗr)

Further reading
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κηρός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 689–690
  • “κηρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “κηρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “κηρός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • κηρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • κηρός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • “κηρός”, 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.
    • wax idem, page 968.

References
  1. Mallory, Douglas, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture
  2. Chantraine, Pierre (1968–1980) “κηρός”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque (in French), Paris: Klincksieck, pages 526–527
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