χήρ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰḗr (“hedgehog”) and identical with Latin ēr (“hedgehog”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰɛ̌ːr/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kʰe̝r/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /çir/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /çir/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /çir/
Noun
χήρ • (khḗr) m (genitive χηρός); third declension
- hedgehog
- Synonym: ἀκανθίων (akanthíōn)
Declension
Third declension of ὁ χήρ; τοῦ χηρός (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ χήρ ho khḗr | τὼ χῆρε tṑ khêre | οἱ χῆρες hoi khêres | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ χηρός toû khērós | τοῖν χηροῖν toîn khēroîn | τῶν χηρῶν tôn khērôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ χηρῐ́ tôi khērí | τοῖν χηροῖν toîn khēroîn | τοῖς χηρσῐ́ / χηρσῐ́ν toîs khērsí(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν χῆρᾰ tòn khêra | τὼ χῆρε tṑ khêre | τοὺς χῆρᾰς toùs khêras | ||||||||||
Vocative | χήρ khḗr | χῆρε khêre | χῆρες khêres | ||||||||||
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References
- “χήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- χήρ 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