χαλάδριον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• χάλανδρον (khálandron), χελάνδρον (khelándron), χαλάτριον (khalátrion)

Etymology

According to Beekes, the presence of variations shows that the word is from Pre-Greek and not related to χαλάω (khaláō, “to slacken”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰa.lá.dri.on/ → /xaˈla.ðri.on/ → /xaˈla.ðri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰa.lá.dri.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰaˈla.dri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /xaˈla.ðri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xaˈla.ðri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xaˈla.ðri.on/

Noun

χαλάδριον • (khaládrion) n (genitive χαλαδρίου); second declension

1. mat or pallet, low bed

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ χαλάδριον; τοῦ χαλαδρίου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ χαλάδριον tò khaládrion	τὼ χαλαδρίω tṑ khaladríō	τᾰ̀ χαλάδριᾰ tà khaládria
Genitive	τοῦ χαλαδρίου toû khaladríou	τοῖν χαλαδρίοιν toîn khaladríoin	τῶν χαλαδρίων tôn khaladríōn
Dative	τῷ χαλαδρίῳ tôi khaladríōi	τοῖν χαλαδρίοιν toîn khaladríoin	τοῖς χαλαδρίοις toîs khaladríois
Accusative	τὸ χαλάδριον tò khaládrion	τὼ χαλαδρίω tṑ khaladríō	τᾰ̀ χαλάδριᾰ tà khaládria
Vocative	χαλάδριον khaládrion	χαλαδρίω khaladríō	χαλάδριᾰ khaládria
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “χαλάδριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χαλάδριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “χαλάδριον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1608
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2014) “χαλάδριον”, in Stefan Norbruis, editor, Pre-Greek: Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 109