κλυστήρ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κλύζω (klúzō, “to wash”) + -τήρ (-tḗr).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /klys.tɛ̌ːr/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /klysˈte̝r/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /klysˈtir/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /klysˈtir/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /klisˈtir/
Noun
κλῠστήρ • (klustḗr) m (genitive κλῠστῆρος); third declension
- (medicine) a syringe, a clyster-pipe
Declension
Third declension of ὁ κλῠστήρ; τοῦ κλῠστῆρος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κλῠστήρ ho klustḗr | τὼ κλῠστῆρε tṑ klustêre | οἱ κλῠστῆρες hoi klustêres | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κλῠστῆρος toû klustêros | τοῖν κλῠστήροιν toîn klustḗroin | τῶν κλῠστήρων tôn klustḗrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κλῠστῆρῐ tôi klustêri | τοῖν κλῠστήροιν toîn klustḗroin | τοῖς κλῠστῆρσῐ / κλῠστῆρσῐν toîs klustêrsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κλῠστῆρᾰ tòn klustêra | τὼ κλῠστῆρε tṑ klustêre | τοὺς κλῠστῆρᾰς toùs klustêras | ||||||||||
Vocative | κλῠστήρ klustḗr | κλῠστῆρε klustêre | κλῠστῆρες klustêres | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → English: clyster
- → French: clystère
- Greek: κλυστήρας (klystíras)
Further reading
- “κλυστήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κλυστήρ 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
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- syringe idem, page 851.