κάρα
See also: καρά
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-(e)s-n-, from *ḱerh₂-; see there for more.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ká.raː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈka.ra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈka.ra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈka.ra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈka.ra/
Noun
κᾰ́ρᾱ • (kárā) n (genitive κᾰ́ρᾱτος); third declension
Usage notes
Later authors have dative κάρᾳ (kárāi), accusative κάρᾱν (kárān).
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ κᾰ́ρᾱ tò kárā |
τὼ κᾰ́ρᾱτε tṑ kárāte |
τᾰ̀ κᾰ́ρᾱτᾰ tà kárāta | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κᾰ́ρᾱτος toû kárātos |
τοῖν κᾰρᾱ́τοιν toîn karā́toin |
τῶν κᾰρᾱ́των tôn karā́tōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κᾰ́ρᾱτῐ tôi kárāti |
τοῖν κᾰρᾱ́τοιν toîn karā́toin |
τοῖς κᾰ́ρᾱσῐ / κᾰ́ρᾱσῐν toîs kárāsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ κᾰ́ρᾱ tò kárā |
τὼ κᾰ́ρᾱτε tṑ kárāte |
τᾰ̀ κᾰ́ρᾱτᾰ tà kárāta | ||||||||||
Vocative | κᾰ́ρᾱ kárā |
κᾰ́ρᾱτε kárāte |
κᾰ́ρᾱτᾰ kárāta | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Vulgar Latin: cara
Further reading
- “κάρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κάρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κάρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “κάρα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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
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- Ancient Greek neuter nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension