καιρός
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Ancient Greek[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kai̯.rós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kɛˈros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /kɛˈros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ceˈros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ceˈros/
Noun[edit]
καιρός • (kairós) m (genitive καιροῦ); second declension (Epic, Attic, Ionic, Doric, Koine)
- measure; proportion; fitness
- (of time): period (of time); season; time
- (often in a positive sense) proper time, opportunity; prime
- (loosely): God's time
- (in the plural) the times
- advantage, profit
Usage notes[edit]
Not found in Homer, though it is used by other early authors who wrote in Epic Greek: Hesiod and Theognis.
Inflection[edit]
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ καιρός ho kairós |
τὼ καιρώ tṑ kairṓ |
οἱ καιροί hoi kairoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ καιροῦ toû kairoû |
τοῖν καιροῖν toîn kairoîn |
τῶν καιρῶν tôn kairôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ καιρῷ tôi kairôi |
τοῖν καιροῖν toîn kairoîn |
τοῖς καιροῖς toîs kairoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν καιρόν tòn kairón |
τὼ καιρώ tṑ kairṓ |
τοὺς καιρούς toùs kairoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | καιρέ kairé |
καιρώ kairṓ |
καιροί kairoí | ||||||||||
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Synonyms[edit]
- (time): χρόνος (khrónos)
Derived terms[edit]
- καίριος (kaírios)
- καιρόφιλος (kairóphilos)
- καιροφυλακέω (kairophulakéō)
- καιροτηρέω (kairotēréō)
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- καιρός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- καιρός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- καιρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- καιρός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2540 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- καιρός 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.
- chance idem, page 123.
- conjuncture idem, page 160.
- crisis idem, page 184.
- decisive idem, page 201.
- emergency idem, page 268.
- field idem, page 317.
- high time idem, page 399.
- hour idem, page 408.
- moment idem, page 538.
- nick idem, page 558.
- occasion idem, page 568.
- opening idem, page 576.
- opportunity idem, page 576.
- period idem, page 607.
- room idem, page 721.
- scope idem, page 740.
- season idem, page 746.
- time idem, page 875.
- turn idem, page 901.
Greek[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek καιρός (kairós).
Noun[edit]
καιρός • (kairós) m (plural καιροί)
- weather
- καιρού επιτρέποντος ― kairoú epitrépontos ― weather permitting
- time, events
- από καιρό σε καιρό ― apó kairó se kairó ― from time to time
Declension[edit]
declension of καιρός
Synonyms[edit]
- (time): χρόνος m (chrónos)
Derived terms[edit]
Categories:
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek oxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension
- Epic Ancient Greek
- Attic Ancient Greek
- Ionic Ancient Greek
- Doric Ancient Greek
- Koine Greek
- grc:Time
- Greek terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Greek lemmas
- Greek nouns
- Greek terms with usage examples
- Greek nouns declining like 'αδελφός'