χῖδρον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- χέδρᾰ (khédra)
Etymology
Pisani insuccesfully attempted to link the word to κριθή (krithḗ, “barley”). According to Beekes, it is a Pre-Greek word.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰîː.dron/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkʰi.dron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈçi.ðron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈçi.ðron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈçi.ðron/
Noun
χῖδρον • (khîdron) n (genitive χῑ́δρου); second declension
- (mostly in the plural) unripe wheaten groats, rubbed from the ear in the hands
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ χῖδρον; τοῦ χῑ́δρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ χῖδρον tò khîdron | τὼ χῑ́δρω tṑ khī́drō | τᾰ̀ χῖδρᾰ tà khîdra | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ χῑ́δρου toû khī́drou | τοῖν χῑ́δροιν toîn khī́droin | τῶν χῑ́δρων tôn khī́drōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ χῑ́δρῳ tôi khī́drōi | τοῖν χῑ́δροιν toîn khī́droin | τοῖς χῑ́δροις toîs khī́drois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ χῖδρον tò khîdron | τὼ χῑ́δρω tṑ khī́drō | τᾰ̀ χῖδρᾰ tà khîdra | ||||||||||
Vocative | χῖδρον khîdron | χῑ́δρω khī́drō | χῖδρᾰ khîdra | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- χῑδρῐ́ᾱς (khīdríās)
- χῑδροβρόχον (khīdrobrókhon)
- χῑδροπώλης (khīdropṓlēs)
Further reading
- “χῖδρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χῖδρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- χῖδρον 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