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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *kárahə, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-(e)s-n- (“top of the head/skull”), from the root *ḱerh₂- (“head, horn, top”); see there for more.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ká.raː/ → /ˈka.ra/ → /ˈka.ra/
Noun
κᾰ́ρᾱ • (kárā) n (genitive κᾰ́ρᾱτος); third declension
- head, face
- the head or top of anything, as of a mountain
- person
Usage notes
Later authors have dative κάρᾳ (kárāi), accusative κάρᾱν (kárān).
Inflection
Related terms
- κρᾱνίον (krāníon, “upper part of the head, skull”)
- κάρηνον (kárēnon, “head; mountain top”)
Descendants
- → Vulgar Latin: cara (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- “κάρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κάρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κάρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “κάρα”, 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.
- 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