κινύρα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Hebrew כִּנּוֹר (kinnōr) and adapted to κινυρός (kinurós, “wailing”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ki.ný.raː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kiˈny.ra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ciˈny.ra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ciˈny.ra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ciˈni.ra/
Noun
κῐνύρᾱ • (kinúrā) f (genitive κῐνύρᾱς); first declension
- kinnor or harp of David
Declension
First declension of ἡ κῐνῠ́ρᾱ; τῆς κῐνῠ́ρᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κῐνῠ́ρᾱ hē kinúrā | τὼ κῐνῠ́ρᾱ tṑ kinúrā | αἱ κῐνῠ́ραι hai kinúrai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κῐνῠ́ρᾱς tês kinúrās | τοῖν κῐνῠ́ραιν toîn kinúrain | τῶν κῐνῠρῶν tôn kinurôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κῐνῠ́ρᾳ têi kinúrāi | τοῖν κῐνῠ́ραιν toîn kinúrain | ταῖς κῐνῠ́ραις taîs kinúrais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κῐνῠ́ρᾱν tḕn kinúrān | τὼ κῐνῠ́ρᾱ tṑ kinúrā | τᾱ̀ς κῐνῠ́ρᾱς tā̀s kinúrās | ||||||||||
Vocative | κῐνῠ́ρᾱ kinúrā | κῐνῠ́ρᾱ kinúrā | κῐνῠ́ραι kinúrai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Late Latin: cinyra
Further reading
- “κινύρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κινύρα 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