κάστωρ

See also: Κάστωρ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

See also Sanskrit कस्तूरी (kastūrī, “musk”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kás.tɔːr/ → /ˈkas.tor/ → /ˈkas.tor/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kás.tɔːr/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkas.tor/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkas.tor/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkas.tor/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkas.tor/

Noun

κάστωρ • (kástōr) m (genitive κάστορος); third declension

1. beaver

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ κάστωρ; τοῦ κάστορος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κάστωρ ho kástōr	τὼ κάστορε tṑ kástore	οἱ κάστορες hoi kástores
Genitive	τοῦ κάστορος toû kástoros	τοῖν καστόροιν toîn kastóroin	τῶν καστόρων tôn kastórōn
Dative	τῷ κάστορῐ tôi kástori	τοῖν καστόροιν toîn kastóroin	τοῖς κάστορσῐ / κάστορσῐν toîs kástorsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν κάστορᾰ tòn kástora	τὼ κάστορε tṑ kástore	τοὺς κάστορᾰς toùs kástoras
Vocative	κάστορ kástor	κάστορε kástore	κάστορες kástores
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• καστόριον (kastórion)

Descendants

• → Classical Syriac: ܩܣܛܘܪ (qasṭor)
• → Latin: castor (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “κάστωρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κάστωρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κάστωρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • beaver idem, page 68.
  • castor idem, page 117.