καθέδρα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κατά (katá, “down”) + ἕδρα (hédra, “seat”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ka.tʰé.draː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kaˈtʰe.dra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /kaˈθe.ðra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /kaˈθe.ðra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /kaˈθe.ðra/
Noun
κᾰθέδρᾱ • (kathédrā) f (genitive κᾰθέδρᾱς); first declension
- seat
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cynegeticus 4.4
- chair
- 320 CE – 400 CE, Oribasius, Collected Works 6.25.1
- 170 CE – 240 CE, Herodian, History of the Empire from the Death of Marcus 2.3.7
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.714e
- (nautical) rower's seat
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 1.21.2
- sitting part, posterior, bottom
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, περὶ τῶν ἐντὸς παθῶν 47
- 100 CE – 200 CE, Pollux, Onomasticon 2.184
- (architecture) base of a column
- 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 17.1.46
- sitting posture
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Categories p6b.11
- 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 4.689b.21
- 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On Fatigue 5
- 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On Fatigue 7
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.45c
- seated idleness, inaction
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.18
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Camillus 28
- session
- teacher's chair, professorial chair
- 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 23:2
- imperial throne
- (figuratively) imperial representative
Inflection
First declension of ἡ κᾰθέδρᾱ; τῆς κᾰθέδρᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κᾰθέδρᾱ hē kathédrā | τὼ κᾰθέδρᾱ tṑ kathédrā | αἱ κᾰθέδραι hai kathédrai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κᾰθέδρᾱς tês kathédrās | τοῖν κᾰθέδραιν toîn kathédrain | τῶν κᾰθεδρῶν tôn kathedrôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κᾰθέδρᾳ têi kathédrāi | τοῖν κᾰθέδραιν toîn kathédrain | ταῖς κᾰθέδραις taîs kathédrais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κᾰθέδρᾱν tḕn kathédrān | τὼ κᾰθέδρᾱ tṑ kathédrā | τᾱ̀ς κᾰθέδρᾱς tā̀s kathédrās | ||||||||||
Vocative | κᾰθέδρᾱ kathédrā | κᾰθέδρᾱ kathédrā | κᾰθέδραι kathédrai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κᾰθεδρᾰ́ριον (kathedrárion)
- κᾰθέδρῐος (kathédrios)
- κᾰθεδρωτός (kathedrōtós)
Descendants
- → Latin: cathedra (see there for further descendants)
- → Russian: ка́федра (káfedra)
- → Ukrainian: ка́федра (káfedra)
- → Georgian: კათედრა (ḳatedra)
Further reading
- “καθέδρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “καθέδρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- καθέδρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G2515 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- καθέδρα 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
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- inaction idem, page 427.