κηραφίς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, of Pre-Greek origin and related to κάραβος (kárabos, “prickly crustacean”), κεράμβηλον (kerámbēlon, “kind of beetle”) and κεράμβυξ (kerámbux, “cerambyx”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kɛː.ra.pʰís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ke̝.raˈpʰis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ci.raˈɸis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ci.raˈfis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ci.raˈfis/
Noun
κηρᾰφῐ́ς • (kēraphís) f (genitive κηρᾰφῐ́δος); third declension
- kind of locust
Declension
Third declension of ἡ κηρᾰφῐ́ς; τῆς κηρᾰφῐ́δος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nominative | ἡ κηρᾰφῐ́ς hē kēraphís | τὼ κηρᾰφῐ́δε tṑ kēraphíde | αἱ κηρᾰφῐ́δες hai kēraphídes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κηρᾰφῐ́δος tês kēraphídos | τοῖν κηρᾰφῐ́δοιν toîn kēraphídoin | τῶν κηρᾰφῐ́δων tôn kēraphídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κηρᾰφῐ́δῐ têi kēraphídi | τοῖν κηρᾰφῐ́δοιν toîn kēraphídoin | ταῖς κηρᾰφῐ́σῐ / κηρᾰφῐ́σῐν taîs kēraphísi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κηρᾰφῐ́δᾰ tḕn kēraphída | τὼ κηρᾰφῐ́δε tṑ kēraphíde | τᾱ̀ς κηρᾰφῐ́δᾰς tā̀s kēraphídas | ||||||||||
Vocative | κηρᾰφῐ́ς kēraphís | κηρᾰφῐ́δε kēraphíde | κηρᾰφῐ́δες kēraphídes | ||||||||||
Notes: |
|
Further reading
- “κηραφίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κηραφίς 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