κρεμαστήρ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κρεμάννυμι (kremánnumi, “to hang”) +‎ -τήρ (-tḗr).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kre.mas.tɛ̌ːr/ → /kre.masˈtir/ → /kre.masˈtir/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kre.mas.tɛ̌ːr/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kre.masˈte̝r/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kre.masˈtir/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kre.masˈtir/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kre.masˈtir/

Noun

κρεμᾰστήρ • (kremastḗr) m (genitive κρεμᾰστῆρος); third declension

1. (in the plural) cremaster
2. stalk by which a grape-cluster hangs

Declension

Third declension of ὁ κρεμᾰστήρ; τοῦ κρεμᾰστῆρος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κρεμᾰστήρ ho kremastḗr	τὼ κρεμᾰστῆρε tṑ kremastêre	οἱ κρεμᾰστῆρες hoi kremastêres
Genitive	τοῦ κρεμᾰστῆρος toû kremastêros	τοῖν κρεμᾰστήροιν toîn kremastḗroin	τῶν κρεμᾰστήρων tôn kremastḗrōn
Dative	τῷ κρεμᾰστῆρῐ tôi kremastêri	τοῖν κρεμᾰστήροιν toîn kremastḗroin	τοῖς κρεμᾰστῆρσῐ / κρεμᾰστῆρσῐν toîs kremastêrsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν κρεμᾰστῆρᾰ tòn kremastêra	τὼ κρεμᾰστῆρε tṑ kremastêre	τοὺς κρεμᾰστῆρᾰς toùs kremastêras
Vocative	κρεμᾰστήρ kremastḗr	κρεμᾰστῆρε kremastêre	κρεμᾰστῆρες kremastêres
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Catalan: clemàstecs
• → Galician: gramalleira
• → English: cremaster
• → French: crémaillère, cramaillère, cramaillier (archaic)
  • → Catalan: cremallera
  • → English: crémaillère
  • → Spanish: cremallera

Further reading

• “κρεμαστήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κρεμαστήρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette