κέγχρος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κέρχνος (kérkhnos)
Etymology
Mostly derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer-gʰ-r-o- (“pulverized”), reduplicated from the root *gʰer- (“to rub, grind”) with dissimilation r…r > n…r, and further connected with Ancient Greek χερμάς (khermás), χεράς (kherás, “pebble, gravel”), but the etymology remains unclear. Per Beekes, this and similar words may be of Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kéŋ.kʰros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkeŋ.kʰros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈceŋ.xros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈceŋ.xros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈceŋ.xros/
Noun
κέγχρος • (kénkhros) m (genitive κέγχρου); second declension
- millet (Panicum miliaceum)
- Synonym: πᾰ́σπᾰλος (páspalos)
- anything in small grains
- spawn of fish
- small beads
- speck, sty in the eye
- a small kind of diamond
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ κέγχρος; τοῦ κέγχρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κέγχρος ho kénkhros | τὼ κέγχρω tṑ kénkhrō | οἱ κέγχροι hoi kénkhroi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κέγχρου toû kénkhrou | τοῖν κέγχροιν toîn kénkhroin | τῶν κέγχρων tôn kénkhrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κέγχρῳ tôi kénkhrōi | τοῖν κέγχροιν toîn kénkhroin | τοῖς κέγχροις toîs kénkhrois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κέγχρον tòn kénkhron | τὼ κέγχρω tṑ kénkhrō | τοὺς κέγχρους toùs kénkhrous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κέγχρε kénkhre | κέγχρω kénkhrō | κέγχροι kénkhroi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κεγχραμίς (kenkhramís)
- Κεγχρεαί (Kenkhreaí)
- κεγχρεών (kenkhreṓn)
- κεγχριαῖος (kenkhriaîos)
- κεγχρίας (kenkhrías)
- κεγχρίνης (kenkhrínēs)
- κέγχρινος (kénkhrinos)
- κεγχρίς (kenkhrís)
- κεγχρίτης (kenkhrítēs)
- κεγχρώδης (kenkhrṓdēs)
- κεγχρώματα (kenkhrṓmata)
- κεγχρωτός (kenkhrōtós)
Descendants
- Greek: κεχρί (kechrí)
- → Translingual: Cenchrus
Further reading
- “κέγχρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κέγχρος 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