κειρία
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- καιρία (kairía)
- κηρία (kēría)
- κιρία (kiría)
Etymology
The connection with καῖρος (kaîros, “string”) seems obvious. The presence of the alternative forms leads to a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /keː.rí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kiˈri.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ciˈri.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ciˈri.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ciˈri.a/
Noun
κειρῐ́ᾱ • (keiríā) f (genitive κειρῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- girth of a bedstead
- (medicine) swathe, bandage
- grave-clothes
- tapeworm
Inflection
First declension of ἡ κειρῐ́ᾱ; τῆς κειρῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κειρῐ́ᾱ hē keiríā | τὼ κειρῐ́ᾱ tṑ keiríā | αἱ κειρῐ́αι hai keiríai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κειρῐ́ᾱς tês keiríās | τοῖν κειρῐ́αιν toîn keiríain | τῶν κειρῐῶν tôn keiriôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κειρῐ́ᾳ têi keiríāi | τοῖν κειρῐ́αιν toîn keiríain | ταῖς κειρῐ́αις taîs keiríais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κειρῐ́ᾱν tḕn keiríān | τὼ κειρῐ́ᾱ tṑ keiríā | τᾱ̀ς κειρῐ́ᾱς tā̀s keiríās | ||||||||||
Vocative | κειρῐ́ᾱ keiríā | κειρῐ́ᾱ keiríā | κειρῐ́αι keiríai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κειριάτης (keiriátēs)
- κειριόω (keirióō)
References
- “κειρία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κειρία 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