κάρα

See also: καρά

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Hellenic *kárahə, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-(e)s-n- (“top of the head/skull”), from the root *ḱerh₂- (“head; horn; top”).^[1]

κᾰ́ρᾱ • (kắrā) n (genitive κᾰ́ρᾱτος); third declension

Third declension of τὸ κᾰ́ρᾱ; τοῦ κᾰ́ρᾱτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κᾰ́ρᾱ tò kắrā	τὼ κᾰ́ρᾱτε tṑ kắrāte	τᾰ̀ κᾰ́ρᾱτᾰ tằ kắrātă
Genitive	τοῦ κᾰ́ρᾱτος toû kắrātos	τοῖν κᾰρᾱ́τοιν toîn kărā́toin	τῶν κᾰρᾱ́των tôn kărā́tōn
Dative	τῷ κᾰ́ρᾱτῐ tōî kắrātĭ	τοῖν κᾰρᾱ́τοιν toîn kărā́toin	τοῖς κᾰ́ρᾱσῐ / κᾰ́ρᾱσῐν toîs kắrāsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ κᾰ́ρᾱ tò kắrā	τὼ κᾰ́ρᾱτε tṑ kắrāte	τᾰ̀ κᾰ́ρᾱτᾰ tằ kắrātă
Vocative	κᾰ́ρᾱ kắrā	κᾰ́ρᾱτε kắrāte	κᾰ́ρᾱτᾰ kắrātă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “κάρᾱ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 641

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“κάρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
κάρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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- head idem, page 389.
- throw idem, page 871.
κάρα, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011