καθετήρ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From καθίημι (kathíēmi, “to let down, descend”) + -τήρ (-tḗr).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ka.tʰe.tɛ̌ːr/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ka.tʰeˈte̝r/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ka.θeˈtir/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ka.θeˈtir/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ka.θeˈtir/
Noun
κᾰθετήρ • (kathetḗr) m (genitive κᾰθετῆρος); third declension
- (medicine) a surgical instrument for emptying the bladder, a catheter
Declension
Third declension of ὁ κᾰθετήρ; τοῦ κᾰθετῆρος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κᾰθετήρ ho kathetḗr | τὼ κᾰθετῆρε tṑ kathetêre | οἱ κᾰθετῆρες hoi kathetêres | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κᾰθετῆρος toû kathetêros | τοῖν κᾰθετήροιν toîn kathetḗroin | τῶν κᾰθετήρων tôn kathetḗrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κᾰθετῆρῐ tôi kathetêri | τοῖν κᾰθετήροιν toîn kathetḗroin | τοῖς κᾰθετῆρσῐ / κᾰθετῆρσῐν toîs kathetêrsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κᾰθετῆρᾰ tòn kathetêra | τὼ κᾰθετῆρε tṑ kathetêre | τοὺς κᾰθετῆρᾰς toùs kathetêras | ||||||||||
Vocative | κᾰθετήρ kathetḗr | κᾰθετῆρε kathetêre | κᾰθετῆρες kathetêres | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Arabic: قَثْطَرَة (qaṯṭara), قَسْطَر (qasṭar), قَسْطَرَة (qasṭara)
- → English: catheter
- → French: cathéter
- Greek: καθετήρας (kathetíras)
Further reading
- “καθετήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- καθετήρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.