καρχήσιον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- καρχᾱσιον (karkhāsion) – Doric
Etymology
Foreign word of unknown origin. Maybe from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kar.kʰɛ̌ː.si.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /karˈkʰe̝.si.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /karˈçi.si.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /karˈçi.si.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /karˈçi.si.on/
Noun
κᾰρχήσῐον • (karkhḗsion) n (genitive κᾰρχησῐ́ου); second declension
- drinking-cup narrower in the middle than the top and bottom
- (nautical) masthead of a ship, through which the halyards worked
- triangular instrument used in carpentry
- cage or chamber in a torsion-engine
- crane for unloading ships
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ κᾰρχήσῐον; τοῦ κᾰρχησῐ́ου (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ κᾰρχήσῐον tò karkhḗsion | τὼ κᾰρχησῐ́ω tṑ karkhēsíō | τᾰ̀ κᾰρχήσῐᾰ tà karkhḗsia | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κᾰρχησῐ́ου toû karkhēsíou | τοῖν κᾰρχησῐ́οιν toîn karkhēsíoin | τῶν κᾰρχησῐ́ων tôn karkhēsíōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κᾰρχησῐ́ῳ tôi karkhēsíōi | τοῖν κᾰρχησῐ́οιν toîn karkhēsíoin | τοῖς κᾰρχησῐ́οις toîs karkhēsíois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ κᾰρχήσῐον tò karkhḗsion | τὼ κᾰρχησῐ́ω tṑ karkhēsíō | τᾰ̀ κᾰρχήσῐᾰ tà karkhḗsia | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κᾰρχήσῐον karkhḗsion | κᾰρχησῐ́ω karkhēsíō | κᾰρχήσῐᾰ karkhḗsia | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- καρχήσιος (karkhḗsios)
Descendants
- → Latin: carchēsium
Further reading
- “καρχήσιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “καρχήσιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- καρχήσιον 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