κάρυον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“head”). Cognates include English harns, Old Norse hjarni, Latin cerebrum (all three meaning 'brain') and Avestan 𐬯𐬁𐬭𐬀 (sāra), Persian سر (sar) and Sanskrit शिरस् (śiras) (all three meaning 'head').
See as well κρᾱνίον (krāníon, “skull”), κέρας (kéras, “horn”) and κᾰ́ρᾱ (kárā, “face”)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ká.ry.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈka.ry.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈka.ry.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈka.ry.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈka.ri.on/
Noun
κᾰ́ρῠον • (káruon) n (genitive κᾰρῠ́ου); second declension
- nut (hard-shelled seed)
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ κᾰ́ρῠον tò káruon |
τὼ κᾰρῠ́ω tṑ karúō |
τᾰ̀ κᾰ́ρῠᾰ tà kárua | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κᾰρῠ́ου toû karúou |
τοῖν κᾰρῠ́οιν toîn karúoin |
τῶν κᾰρῠ́ων tôn karúōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κᾰρῠ́ῳ tôi karúōi |
τοῖν κᾰρῠ́οιν toîn karúoin |
τοῖς κᾰρῠ́οις toîs karúois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ κᾰ́ρῠον tò káruon |
τὼ κᾰρῠ́ω tṑ karúō |
τᾰ̀ κᾰ́ρῠᾰ tà kárua | ||||||||||
Vocative | κᾰ́ρῠον káruon |
κᾰρῠ́ω karúō |
κᾰ́ρῠᾰ kárua | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κᾰρῡ́δῐον (karū́dion)
- καρύϊνος (karúïnos)
- Ποντικόν κάρυον (Pontikón káruon)
Descendants
References
- “κάρυον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κάρυον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κάρυον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κάρυον 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.
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the second declension