κύχραμος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κέχραμος (kékhramos), κίγχραμος (kínkhramos), κίχραμος (kíkhramos)

Etymology

Clearly a Pre-Greek word, in view of the variants.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ký.kʰra.mos/ → /ˈcy.xra.mos/ → /ˈci.xra.mos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ký.kʰra.mos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈky.kʰra.mos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.xra.mos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.xra.mos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.xra.mos/

Noun

κῠ́χρᾰμος • (kúkhramos) m (genitive κῠχρᾰ́μου); second declension

1. unknown migratory bird, perhaps:
   1. corncrake (Crex crex)
   2. water rail (Rallus aquaticus)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κῠ́χρᾰμος; τοῦ κῠχρᾰ́μου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κῠ́χρᾰμος ho kúkhramos	τὼ κῠχρᾰ́μω tṑ kukhrámō	οἱ κῠ́χρᾰμοι hoi kúkhramoi
Genitive	τοῦ κῠχρᾰ́μου toû kukhrámou	τοῖν κῠχρᾰ́μοιν toîn kukhrámoin	τῶν κῠχρᾰ́μων tôn kukhrámōn
Dative	τῷ κῠχρᾰ́μῳ tôi kukhrámōi	τοῖν κῠχρᾰ́μοιν toîn kukhrámoin	τοῖς κῠχρᾰ́μοις toîs kukhrámois
Accusative	τὸν κῠ́χρᾰμον tòn kúkhramon	τὼ κῠχρᾰ́μω tṑ kukhrámō	τοὺς κῠχρᾰ́μους toùs kukhrámous
Vocative	κῠ́χρᾰμε kúkhrame	κῠχρᾰ́μω kukhrámō	κῠ́χρᾰμοι kúkhramoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “κύχραμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κύχραμος 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