καλάσιρις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κᾰλᾰ́σηρῐς (kalásēris)

Etymology

From Egyptian, even though the exact word remains unclear.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.lá.siː.ris/ → /kaˈla.si.ris/ → /kaˈla.si.ris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.lá.siː.ris/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kaˈla.si.ris/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kaˈla.si.ris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kaˈla.si.ris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kaˈla.si.ris/

Noun

κᾰλᾰ́σῑρῐς • (kalásīris) f (genitive κᾰλᾰσῑ́ρῐος); third declension

1. long Egyptian garment, with tassels or fringe at the bottom

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ κᾰλᾰ́σῑρῐς; τῆς κᾰλᾰσῑ́ρῐος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κᾰλᾰ́σῑρῐς hē kalásīris	τὼ κᾰλᾰσῑ́ρῐε tṑ kalasī́rie	αἱ κᾰλᾰσῑ́ρῐες hai kalasī́ries
Genitive	τῆς κᾰλᾰσῑ́ρῐος tês kalasī́rios	τοῖν κᾰλᾰσῑρῐ́οιν toîn kalasīríoin	τῶν κᾰλᾰσῑρῐ́ων tôn kalasīríōn
Dative	τῇ κᾰλᾰσῑ́ρῑ têi kalasī́rī	τοῖν κᾰλᾰσῑρῐ́οιν toîn kalasīríoin	ταῖς κᾰλᾰσῑ́ρῐσῐ / κᾰλᾰσῑ́ρῐσῐν taîs kalasī́risi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κᾰλᾰ́σῑρῐν tḕn kalásīrin	τὼ κᾰλᾰσῑ́ρῐε tṑ kalasī́rie	τᾱ̀ς κᾰλᾰσῑ́ρῑς / κᾰλᾰσῑ́ρῐᾰς tā̀s kalasī́rīs / kalasī́rias
Vocative	κᾰλᾰ́σῑρῐ kalásīri	κᾰλᾰσῑ́ρῐε kalasī́rie	κᾰλᾰσῑ́ρῐες kalasī́ries
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• τρῠφοκᾰλᾰ́σῑρῐς (truphokalásīris)

Further reading

• “καλάσιρις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “καλάσιρις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• καλάσιρις 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