κάρηνον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κάρανον (káranon)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ḱŕ̥h₂-es-n-h₂, from *ḱerh₂- (“head, top”). Cognate with Ancient Greek κάρα (kára, “head, face”), Proto-Germanic *hirzniją (“brain”) and Old Armenian սար (sar, “tip, top; mountain”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ká.rɛː.non/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈka.re̝.non/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈka.ri.non/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈka.ri.non/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈka.ri.non/
Noun
κάρηνον • (kárēnon) n (genitive κάρηνου); second declension
- head; mountain top (used mostly in the plural form)
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ κᾰ́ρηνον; τοῦ κᾰρήνου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ κᾰ́ρηνον tò kárēnon | τὼ κᾰρήνω tṑ karḗnō | τᾰ̀ κᾰ́ρηνᾰ tà kárēna | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κᾰρήνου toû karḗnou | τοῖν κᾰρήνοιν toîn karḗnoin | τῶν κᾰρήνων tôn karḗnōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κᾰρήνῳ tôi karḗnōi | τοῖν κᾰρήνοιν toîn karḗnoin | τοῖς κᾰρήνοις toîs karḗnois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ κᾰ́ρηνον tò kárēnon | τὼ κᾰρήνω tṑ karḗnō | τᾰ̀ κᾰ́ρηνᾰ tà kárēna | ||||||||||
Vocative | κᾰ́ρηνον kárēnon | κᾰρήνω karḗnō | κᾰ́ρηνᾰ kárēna | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ὑψικάρηνος (hupsikárēnos)
Further reading
- “κάρηνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κάρηνον 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