κύχραμος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κέχραμος (kékhramos), κίγχραμος (kínkhramos), κίχραμος (kíkhramos)
Etymology
Clearly a Pre-Greek word, in view of the variants.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ký.kʰra.mos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈky.kʰra.mos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈcy.xra.mos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈcy.xra.mos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈci.xra.mos/
Noun
κῠ́χρᾰμος • (kúkhramos) m (genitive κῠχρᾰ́μου); second declension
- unknown migratory bird, perhaps:
- corncrake (Crex crex)
- water rail (Rallus aquaticus)
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ κῠ́χρᾰμος; τοῦ κῠχρᾰ́μου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κῠ́χρᾰμος ho kúkhramos | τὼ κῠχρᾰ́μω tṑ kukhrámō | οἱ κῠ́χρᾰμοι hoi kúkhramoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κῠχρᾰ́μου toû kukhrámou | τοῖν κῠχρᾰ́μοιν toîn kukhrámoin | τῶν κῠχρᾰ́μων tôn kukhrámōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κῠχρᾰ́μῳ tôi kukhrámōi | τοῖν κῠχρᾰ́μοιν toîn kukhrámoin | τοῖς κῠχρᾰ́μοις toîs kukhrámois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κῠ́χρᾰμον tòn kúkhramon | τὼ κῠχρᾰ́μω tṑ kukhrámō | τοὺς κῠχρᾰ́μους toùs kukhrámous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κῠ́χρᾰμε kúkhrame | κῠχρᾰ́μω kukhrámō | κῠ́χρᾰμοι kúkhramoi | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “κύχραμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κύχραμος 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