κόδρα

Ancient Greek[edit]

Borrowed from Latin quadra (“square; morsel”). For the initial κο- (ko-) from qua- compare Ancient Greek κοδράντης (kodrántēs), Koine Greek Κοδρᾶτος (Kodrâtos), Byzantine Greek κοτρίγα (kotríga), as well as Ancient Greek Κυρίτης (Kurítēs).

κόδρᾱ • (kódrā) f (genitive κόδρᾱς); first declension (Byzantine or earlier)

some architectural element, possibly a platform of a temple or square
- 7th c. C.E., Ludwig August Dindorf, editor, Chronicon Paschale, published 1832, page 474:
  καὶ καθελὼν τὸν ναὸν τῶν Ἰουδαίων τὸν ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις ἔκτισε τὰ δύο δημόσια καὶ τὸ θέατρον καὶ τὸ τρικάμαραον καὶ τὸ τετράνυμφον καὶ τὸ δωδεκάπυλον τὸ πρὶν ὀνομαζόμενον ἀναβαθμοὶ καὶ τὴν κόδραν
  kaì kathelṑn tòn naòn tôn Ioudaíōn tòn en Hierosolúmois éktise tà dúo dēmósia kaì tò théatron kaì tò trikámaraon kaì tò tetránumphon kaì tò dōdekápulon tò prìn onomazómenon anabathmoì kaì tḕn kódran
  And after destroying the temple of the Jews in Jerusalem, (Hadrian) built the two bathhouses, the theater, the trikamaron, the tetranyphon and the dodekapylon, which was formerly called anabathmoin, and the kodra.^[1]
ambiguous, possibly square or morsel
Synonyms: τετράγωνον (tetrágōnon); ψωμός (psōmós)
- [9th c. C.E., Martianus Hiberniensis, Laon. BM, Ms. 444, page 122r:
  Κοδρα — Codra, quadra]^[2]^[3]
  Kodra — Codra, quadra]
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)]

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κόδρᾱ hē kódrā	τὼ κόδρᾱ tṑ kódrā	αἱ κόδραι hai kódrai
Genitive	τῆς κόδρᾱς tês kódrās	τοῖν κόδραιν toîn kódrain	τῶν κοδρῶν tôn kodrôn
Dative	τῇ κόδρᾳ têi kódrāi	τοῖν κόδραιν toîn kódrain	ταῖς κόδραις taîs kódrais
Accusative	τὴν κόδρᾱν tḕn kódrān	τὼ κόδρᾱ tṑ kódrā	τᾱ̀ς κόδρᾱς tā̀s kódrās
Vocative	κόδρᾱ kódrā	κόδρᾱ kódrā	κόδραι kódrai

^ Joseph Patrich (2002) “On the Lost Circus of Aelia Capitolina”, in Scripta classica israelica, number 21, →ISSN, page 175
^ Georg Getz, Carl Gustav Löwe, Wilhelm C. Heraeus, Gotthold E. Gundermann (1888) Corpus glossariorum Latinorum: Glossae Latinograecae et Graecolatinae. Accedunt minora utriusque linguae glossaria‎^[1], volume II, Leipzig: B. G. Teubner Verlag, page 351, line 35
^ codra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)