κτέρεα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Beekes gives no etymology.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kté.re.a/ → /ˈkte.re.a/ → /ˈkte.re.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kté.re.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkte.re.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkte.re.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkte.re.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkte.re.a/

Noun

κτέρεᾰ • (ktérea) n pl (genitive κτερέων); second declension

1. funeral gifts, burnt with the dead
2. (in general) funeral honors
3. wrappers for the dead, shrouds

Declension

Second declension of τᾰ̀ κτέρεᾰ; τῶν κτερέων (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	τᾰ̀ κτέρεᾰ tà ktérea
Genitive	τῶν κτερέων tôn kteréōn
Dative	τοῖς κτερέοις toîs kteréois
Accusative	τᾰ̀ κτέρεᾰ tà ktérea
Vocative	κτέρεᾰ ktérea
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀκτερής (akterḗs)
• κτερεΐζω (ktereḯzō)
• κτερῐ́σμᾰτᾰ (kterísmata)
• κτερῐστής (kteristḗs)

 

References

• “κτέρεα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κτέρεα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κτέρεα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κτέρεα 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