κίνητρον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κῑνέω (kīnéō, “to move, to stir”) + -τρον (-tron).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kǐː.nɛː.tron/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈki.ne̝.tron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈci.ni.tron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈci.ni.tron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈci.ni.tron/
Noun
κῑ́νητρον • (kī́nētron) n (genitive κῑνήτρου); second declension
- ladle or stick for stirring
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ κῑ́νητρον; τοῦ κῑνήτρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ κῑ́νητρον tò kī́nētron | τὼ κῑνήτρω tṑ kīnḗtrō | τᾰ̀ κῑ́νητρᾰ tà kī́nētra | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κῑνήτρου toû kīnḗtrou | τοῖν κῑνήτροιν toîn kīnḗtroin | τῶν κῑνήτρων tôn kīnḗtrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κῑνήτρῳ tôi kīnḗtrōi | τοῖν κῑνήτροιν toîn kīnḗtroin | τοῖς κῑνήτροις toîs kīnḗtrois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ κῑ́νητρον tò kī́nētron | τὼ κῑνήτρω tṑ kīnḗtrō | τᾰ̀ κῑ́νητρᾰ tà kī́nētra | ||||||||||
Vocative | κῑ́νητρον kī́nētron | κῑνήτρω kīnḗtrō | κῑ́νητρᾰ kī́nētra | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: κίνητρο (kínitro)
Further reading
- “κίνητρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κίνητρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette