καρώ
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κάρον (káron)
Etymology
Frisk derives it from κάρη (kárē, “head”), however the form in -ώ seems Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ka.rɔ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kaˈro/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /kaˈro/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /kaˈro/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /kaˈro/
Proper noun
κᾰρώ • (karṓ) f (genitive κᾰροῦς); third declension
- caraway (Carum carvi)
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ κᾰρώ; τῆς κᾰροῦς (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ κᾰρώ hē karṓ | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς κᾰροῦς tês karoûs | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ κᾰροῖ têi karoî | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν κᾰρώ tḕn karṓ | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | κᾰροῖ karoî | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- καρωτόν (karōtón)
Descendants
- *καρυΐα
- → Aramaic:
- Jewish Palestinian Aramaic: כרבייא
- Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: כַרְוָיָא (karwāyā)
- Classical Syriac: ܟܲܪܘܵܝܵܐ (karwāyā), ܟܵܪܘܵܝܵܐ (kārwāyā), ܟܲܪܲܘܵܝܵܐ (karawāyā), ܟܵܪܲܘܵܝܵܐ (kārawāyā)
- → Arabic: كَرَاوِيَّا (karāwiyyā), كَرَاوِيَة (karāwiya), كَرَوْيَة (karawya), كَرَوْيَاء (karawyāʾ)
- → Catalan: alcaravia
- → Medieval Latin: carui, carvi
- → Old French: carvi
- French: carui
- → Middle English: carvi, caraway, carewey, carwey
- English: caraway
- Scots: carvy
- → Italian: carvi
- → Spanish: carvi
- → Old French: carvi
- → Navarro-Aragonese: alcarahueya
- → Persian: کراویا (karâviyâ)
- → Portuguese: alcaravia
- → Sicilian: charavia
- → Spanish: alcaravea
References
- καρώ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- καρώ 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