κέδρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps a Mediterranean Pre-Greek borrowing or from Proto-Indo-European *ked-. Probably connected with Latin citrus.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ké.dros/ → /ˈke.ðros/ → /ˈce.ðros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ké.dros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛ.dros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈke.ðros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈce.ðros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈce.ðros/

Noun

κέδρος • (kédros) f (genitive κέδρου); second declension

1. cedar (tree of genus Cedrus or Juniperus)
2. anything made of cedar-wood
3. cedar-oil

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ κέδρος; τῆς κέδρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κέδρος hē kédros	τὼ κέδρω tṑ kédrō	αἱ κέδροι hai kédroi
Genitive	τῆς κέδρου tês kédrou	τοῖν κέδροιν toîn kédroin	τῶν κέδρων tôn kédrōn
Dative	τῇ κέδρῳ têi kédrōi	κέδροιν kédroin	ταῖς κέδροις taîs kédrois
Accusative	τὴν κέδρον tḕn kédron	κέδρω kédrō	τᾱ̀ς κέδρους tā̀s kédrous
Vocative	κέδρε kédre	κέδρω kédrō	κέδροι kédroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κεδρέλαιον (kedrélaion)
• κεδρελάτη (kedrelátē)
• κεδρία (kedría)
• κέδρινος (kédrinos)
• κεδρίον (kedríon)
• κεδρίς (kedrís)
• κεδρίτης (kedrítēs)
• κεδρόμηλον (kedrómēlon)
• κέδρον (kédron)
• κεδροπαγής (kedropagḗs)
• κεδροχαρής (kedrokharḗs)
• κεδρόω (kedróō)
• κέδρωστις (kédrōstis)
• κεδρωτός (kedrōtós)
• ὀξύκεδρος (oxúkedros)

 

Descendants

• Greek: κέδρος (kédros)
• → Latin: cedrus, citrus (possibly, via Etruscan)
• → Russian: кедр (kedr)

Further reading

• κέδρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κέδρος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κέδρος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κέδρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κέδρος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • cedar idem, page 120.
  • coffin idem, page 141.
• 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