κάλαθος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Compared by Beekes to γυργαθός (gurgathós), κύαθος (kúathos) and ὁρμαθός (hormathós) and declared Pre-Greek. Explained by Rosół as from Egyptian krḥt (“a basket for fruits as well as for flowers”), itself of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ká.la.tʰos/ → /ˈka.la.θos/ → /ˈka.la.θos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ká.la.tʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈka.la.tʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈka.la.θos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈka.la.θos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈka.la.θos/

Noun

κᾰ́λᾰθος • (kálathos) m (genitive κᾰλᾰ́θου); second declension

1. basket narrow at the base
2. (architecture) capital of a column
3. cooler, especially for wine
4. mould for casting iron
5. reservoir of an oil lamp

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κᾰ́λᾰθος; τοῦ κᾰλᾰ́θου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κᾰ́λᾰθος ho kálathos	τὼ κᾰλᾰ́θω tṑ kaláthō	οἱ κᾰ́λᾰθοι hoi kálathoi
Genitive	τοῦ κᾰλᾰ́θου toû kaláthou	τοῖν κᾰλᾰ́θοιν toîn kaláthoin	τῶν κᾰλᾰ́θων tôn kaláthōn
Dative	τῷ κᾰλᾰ́θῳ tôi kaláthōi	τοῖν κᾰλᾰ́θοιν toîn kaláthoin	τοῖς κᾰλᾰ́θοις toîs kaláthois
Accusative	τὸν κᾰ́λᾰθον tòn kálathon	τὼ κᾰλᾰ́θω tṑ kaláthō	τοὺς κᾰλᾰ́θους toùs kaláthous
Vocative	κᾰ́λᾰθε kálathe	κᾰλᾰ́θω kaláthō	κᾰ́λᾰθοι kálathoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• καλαθηφόρος (kalathēphóros)
• καλάθιον (kaláthion)
• καλαθίσκιον (kalathískion)
• καλαθίσκος (kalathískos)
• καλαθοειδής (kalathoeidḗs)
• καλαθοπλόκος (kalathoplókos)
• καλαθοποιός (kalathopoiós)
• καλάθωσις (kaláthōsis)

 

Descendants

• → Classical Syriac: ܩܠܬܐ (qaltā)
• → Latin: calathus
  • Catalan: calaix
    • → Sardinian: calasciu
    • → Spanish: calaje
• → Georgian: კალათა (ḳalata), კალათი (ḳalati)
• → Laz: კალათი (ǩalati)
• → Old Armenian: կեղթ (kełtʻ), կաղթ (kałtʻ)
  • Armenian: կաղաթ (kaġatʻ), կաղարթ (kaġartʻ), կալաթ (kalatʻ), կղաթ (kġatʻ)

Further reading

• “κάλαθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κάλαθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κάλαθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “կեղթ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 569
• 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
• Hoch, James E. (1994) Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period, Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 331
• Rosół, Rafał (2010) “Griechisch κάλαθος – ein ägyptisches Lehnwort?”, in Historische Sprachforschung / Historical Linguistics (in German), volume 123, →DOI, pages 176–180