κηρίον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κηρός (kērós, “beeswax, honeycomb”) + -ιον (-ion, diminutive).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kɛː.rí.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ke̝ˈri.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ciˈri.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ciˈri.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ciˈri.on/
Noun
κηρίον • (kēríon) n (genitive κηρίου); second declension
For quotations using this term, see Citations:κηρίον.
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ κηρῐ́ον tò kērĭ́on |
τὼ κηρῐ́ω tṑ kērĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ κηρῐ́ᾰ tằ kērĭ́ă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κηρῐ́ου toû kērĭ́ou |
τοῖν κηρῐ́οιν toîn kērĭ́oin |
τῶν κηρῐ́ων tôn kērĭ́ōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κηρῐ́ῳ tōî kērĭ́ōi |
τοῖν κηρῐ́οιν toîn kērĭ́oin |
τοῖς κηρῐ́οις toîs kērĭ́ois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ κηρῐ́ον tò kērĭ́on |
τὼ κηρῐ́ω tṑ kērĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ κηρῐ́ᾰ tằ kērĭ́ă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κηρῐ́ον kērĭ́on |
κηρῐ́ω kērĭ́ō |
κηρῐ́ᾰ kērĭ́ă | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κηριώδης (kēriṓdēs)
Descendants
- Greek: κερί (kerí)
- → Armenian: կերոն (keron), կեռոն (keṙon)
- → English: kerion
- → Latin: cērium
- → Middle Armenian: կերիոն (kerion)
- → Old Georgian: კერეონი (ḳereoni), კეროვანი (ḳerovani)
Further reading
Further reading
- κηρίον in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κηρίον 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
- κηρίον, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “κηρίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κηρίον in Pape, Wilhelm (1914), Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
- “κηρίον”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2781 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.