κρατήρ

See also: Κρατήρ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κρητήρ (krētḗr) — Epic, Ionic

Etymology

From a zero grade of Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-, whence also κεράννυμι (keránnumi, “I mix”), + -τήρ (-tḗr).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kraː.tɛ̌ːr/ → /kraˈtir/ → /kraˈtir/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kraː.tɛ̌ːr/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kraˈte̝r/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kraˈtir/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kraˈtir/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kraˈtir/

Noun

κρᾱτήρ • (krātḗr) m (genitive κρᾱτῆρος); third declension

1. mixing bowl for wine
2. messenger who bears an ode
3. a constellation, Crater the cup
4. cup-shaped basin
   1. crater, mouth of a volcano

Declension

Third declension of ὁ κρᾱτήρ; τοῦ κρᾱτῆρος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κρᾱτήρ ho krātḗr	τὼ κρᾱτῆρε tṑ krātêre	οἱ κρᾱτῆρες hoi krātêres
Genitive	τοῦ κρᾱτῆρος toû krātêros	τοῖν κρᾱτήροιν toîn krātḗroin	τῶν κρᾱτήρων tôn krātḗrōn
Dative	τῷ κρᾱτῆρῐ tôi krātêri	τοῖν κρᾱτήροιν toîn krātḗroin	τοῖς κρᾱτῆρσῐ / κρᾱτῆρσῐν toîs krātêrsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν κρᾱτῆρᾰ tòn krātêra	τὼ κρᾱτῆρε tṑ krātêre	τοὺς κρᾱτῆρᾰς toùs krātêras
Vocative	κρᾱτήρ krātḗr	κρᾱτῆρε krātêre	κρᾱτῆρες krātêres
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: κρατήρας (kratíras)
• → Latin: crātēr, crātēra (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “κρατήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κρατήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κρατήρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “κρατήρ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• κρατήρ in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • basin idem, page 64.
  • bowl idem, page 92.
  • mixing-bowl idem, page 536.