καθέδρα
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From κατά (katá, “down”) + ἕδρα (hédra, “seat”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ka.tʰé.draː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kaˈtʰe.dra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /kaˈθe.ðra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /kaˈθe.ðra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /kaˈθe.ðra/
Noun
[edit]κᾰθέδρᾱ • (kathédrā) f (genitive κᾰθέδρᾱς); first declension
- seat
- sitting posture
- teacher's chair, professorial chair
- imperial throne
- (figurative) imperial representative
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κᾰθέδρᾱ hē kathédrā |
τὼ κᾰθέδρᾱ tṑ kathédrā |
αἱ κᾰθέδραι hai kathédrai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κᾰθέδρᾱς tês kathédrās |
τοῖν κᾰθέδραιν toîn kathédrain |
τῶν κᾰθεδρῶν tôn kathedrôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κᾰθέδρᾳ têi kathédrāi |
τοῖν κᾰθέδραιν toîn kathédrain |
ταῖς κᾰθέδραις taîs kathédrais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κᾰθέδρᾱν tḕn kathédrān |
τὼ κᾰθέδρᾱ tṑ kathédrā |
τᾱ̀ς κᾰθέδρᾱς tā̀s kathédrās | ||||||||||
Vocative | κᾰθέδρᾱ kathédrā |
κᾰθέδρᾱ kathédrā |
κᾰθέδραι kathédrai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- κᾰθεδρᾰ́ριον (kathedrárion)
- κᾰθέδρῐος (kathédrios)
- κᾰθεδρωτός (kathedrōtós)
Descendants
[edit]- → Latin: cathedra (see there for further descendants)
- → Russian: ка́федра (káfedra)
- → Ukrainian: ка́федра (káfedra)
- → Georgian: კათედრა (ḳatedra)
References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἕδρᾱ (> COMP > καθέδρα)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 374
Further reading
[edit]- “καθέδρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “καθέδρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- καθέδρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G2515 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- καθέδρα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- inaction idem, page 427.
- “καθέδρα”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
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