χῖδρον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• χέδρᾰ (khédra)

Etymology

Pisani insuccesfully attempted to link the word to κριθή (krithḗ, “barley”). According to Beekes, it is a Pre-Greek word.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰîː.dron/ → /ˈçi.ðron/ → /ˈçi.ðron/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰîː.dron/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰi.dron/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈçi.ðron/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈçi.ðron/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈçi.ðron/

Noun

χῖδρον • (khîdron) n (genitive χῑ́δρου); second declension

1. (mostly in the plural) unripe wheaten groats, rubbed from the ear in the hands

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ χῖδρον; τοῦ χῑ́δρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ χῖδρον tò khîdron	τὼ χῑ́δρω tṑ khī́drō	τᾰ̀ χῖδρᾰ tà khîdra
Genitive	τοῦ χῑ́δρου toû khī́drou	τοῖν χῑ́δροιν toîn khī́droin	τῶν χῑ́δρων tôn khī́drōn
Dative	τῷ χῑ́δρῳ tôi khī́drōi	τοῖν χῑ́δροιν toîn khī́droin	τοῖς χῑ́δροις toîs khī́drois
Accusative	τὸ χῖδρον tò khîdron	τὼ χῑ́δρω tṑ khī́drō	τᾰ̀ χῖδρᾰ tà khîdra
Vocative	χῖδρον khîdron	χῑ́δρω khī́drō	χῖδρᾰ khîdra
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• χῑδρῐ́ᾱς (khīdríās)
• χῑδροβρόχον (khīdrobrókhon)
• χῑδροπώλης (khīdropṓlēs)

 

Further reading

• “χῖδρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χῖδρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χῖδρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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