κλιμακτήρ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κλῖμαξ (klîmax) + -τήρ (-tḗr).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kliː.mak.tɛ̌ːr/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kli.makˈte̝r/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /kli.makˈtir/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /kli.makˈtir/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /kli.makˈtir/
Noun
κλῑμᾰκτήρ • (klīmaktḗr) m (genitive κλῑμᾰκτῆρος); third declension
- rung of a ladder
- (astrology) critical point in human life
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ κλῑμᾰκτήρ; τοῦ κλῑμᾰκτῆρος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κλῑμᾰκτήρ ho klīmaktḗr | τὼ κλῑμᾰκτῆρε tṑ klīmaktêre | οἱ κλῑμᾰκτῆρες hoi klīmaktêres | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κλῑμᾰκτῆρος toû klīmaktêros | τοῖν κλῑμᾰκτήροιν toîn klīmaktḗroin | τῶν κλῑμᾰκτήρων tôn klīmaktḗrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κλῑμᾰκτῆρῐ tôi klīmaktêri | τοῖν κλῑμᾰκτήροιν toîn klīmaktḗroin | τοῖς κλῑμᾰκτῆρσῐ / κλῑμᾰκτῆρσῐν toîs klīmaktêrsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κλῑμᾰκτῆρᾰ tòn klīmaktêra | τὼ κλῑμᾰκτῆρε tṑ klīmaktêre | τοὺς κλῑμᾰκτῆρᾰς toùs klīmaktêras | ||||||||||
Vocative | κλῑμᾰκτήρ klīmaktḗr | κλῑμᾰκτῆρε klīmaktêre | κλῑμᾰκτῆρες klīmaktêres | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κλῑμᾰκτηρίζω (klīmaktērízō)
- κλῑμᾰκτηρῐκός (klīmaktērikós)
References
- “κλιμακτήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κλιμακτήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κλιμακτήρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G5481 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- gangway idem, page 353.
- plank idem, page 617.
- rung idem, page 727.
- step idem, page 815.