καιρός

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kai̯.rós/ → /kɛˈros/ → /ceˈros/

• (5^th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /kai̯.rós/
• (1^st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kɛˈros/
• (4^th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /kɛˈros/
• (10^th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ceˈros/
• (15^th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ceˈros/

Noun

καιρός • (kairós) m (genitive καιροῦ); second declension (not in Homer)

1. measure; proportion; fitness
2. (of time): period (of time); season; time
3. (often in a positive sense) proper time, opportunity; prime
4. (loosely): God's time
5. (in the plural) the times
6. advantage, profit

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ καιρός; τοῦ καιροῦ

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ καιρός	τὼ καιρώ	οἱ καιροί
Genitive	τοῦ καιροῦ	τοῖν καιροῖν	τῶν καιρῶν
Dative	τῷ καιρῷ	τοῖν καιροῖν	τοῖς καιροῖς
Accusative	τὸν καιρόν	τὼ καιρώ	τοὺς καιρούς
Vocative	καιρέ	καιρώ	καιροί
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• (time): χρόνος (khrónos)

Derived terms

• καίριος (kaírios)
• καιρόφιλος (kairóphilos)
• καιροφυλακέω (kairophulakéō)
• καιροτηρέω (kairotēréō)

Descendants

• English: kairos
• French: kairos
• Greek: καιρός (kairós)

References

• 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.

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Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek καιρός (kairós).

Noun

καιρός • (kairós) m (plural καιροί)

1. weather

   καιρού επιτρέποντος ― kairoú epitrépontos ― weather permitting

2. time, events

   από καιρό σε καιρό ― apó kairó se kairó ― from time to time

Declension

declension of καιρός

	singular	plural
nominative	καιρός •	καιροί •
genitive	καιρού •	καιρών •
accusative	καιρό •	καιρούς •
vocative	καιρέ •	καιροί •

Synonyms

• (time): χρόνος m (chrónos)

Derived terms

• σκοτώνω τον καιρό (skotóno ton kairó, “to kill time”)