Κέρβερος

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown. Suggested to be cognate with Sanskrit शबल (śabala), कर्बुर (karbura, “speckled, spotted”),[1] from Late Proto-Indo-European *ḱerbero- (“dappled, spotted”) ( perhaps compare Spot as a popular dog's name in English),[2] but this is phonetically problematic and is rejected by Beekes.

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Κέρβερος • (Kérberos) m (genitive Κερβέρου); second declension

  1. Cerberus, the three-headed dog which guards the entrance to Hades

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Κέρβερος; τοῦ Κερβέρου (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Κέρβερος
ho Kérberos
Genitive τοῦ Κερβέρου
toû Kerbérou
Dative τῷ Κερβέρῳ
tôi Kerbérōi
Accusative τὸν Κέρβερον
tòn Kérberon
Vocative Κέρβερε
Kérbere
Notes:

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Bruce Lincoln, Death, War, and Sacrifice: Studies in Ideology & Practice (1991, →ISBN, 96)
  2. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “k̑erbero-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 578
  • “Κέρβερος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Κέρβερος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,005
  • Klein
  • Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World
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