κάρα
See also: καρά
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κάρη (kárē) – Homeric, Ionic
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *kárahə, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-(e)s-n- (“top of the head/skull”), from the root *ḱerh₂- (“head, horn, top”); see there for more.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ká.raː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈka.ra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈka.ra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈka.ra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈka.ra/
Noun
κᾰ́ρᾱ • (kárā) n (genitive κᾰ́ρᾱτος); third declension
- head, face
- the head or top of anything, as of a mountain
- person
Usage notes
Later authors have dative κάρᾳ (kárāi), accusative κάρᾱν (kárān).
Inflection
Third declension of τὸ κᾰ́ρᾱ; τοῦ κᾰ́ρᾱτος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ κᾰ́ρᾱ tò kárā | τὼ κᾰ́ρᾱτε tṑ kárāte | τᾰ̀ κᾰ́ρᾱτᾰ tà kárāta | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κᾰ́ρᾱτος toû kárātos | τοῖν κᾰρᾱ́τοιν toîn karā́toin | τῶν κᾰρᾱ́των tôn karā́tōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κᾰ́ρᾱτῐ tôi kárāti | τοῖν κᾰρᾱ́τοιν toîn karā́toin | τοῖς κᾰ́ρᾱσῐ / κᾰ́ρᾱσῐν toîs kárāsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ κᾰ́ρᾱ tò kárā | τὼ κᾰ́ρᾱτε tṑ kárāte | τᾰ̀ κᾰ́ρᾱτᾰ tà kárāta | ||||||||||
Vocative | κᾰ́ρᾱ kárā | κᾰ́ρᾱτε kárāte | κᾰ́ρᾱτᾰ kárāta | ||||||||||
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Related terms
- κρᾱνίον (krāníon, “upper part of the head, skull”)
- κάρηνον (kárēnon, “head; mountain top”)
Descendants
- → Vulgar Latin: cara (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- “κάρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “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
- “κάρα”, 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.
- head idem, page 389.
- throw idem, page 871.
- 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