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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From καιρός (kairós) + -ῐος (-ios).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kǎi̯.ri.os/ → /ˈcɛ.ri.os/ → /ˈce.ri.os/
Adjective
καίρῐος • (kaírios) m (feminine καιρῐ́η, neuter καίρῐον); first/second declension
- (of place) in or at the right place; hence parts of the body: vital part, (of wounds) mortal, grave, serious
- (of time) in season, timely, at the exact or fatal moment; lasting but for a season
- (in superlative) chief, principal
Inflection
References
- “καίριος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “καίριος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- καίριος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- “καίριος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2540 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- becoming idem, page 68.
- befitting idem, page 69.
- dangerous idem, page 194.
- deadly idem, page 198.
- due idem, page 255.
- fatal idem, page 309.
- fit idem, page 323.
- fortunate idem, page 340.
- happy idem, page 384.
- lucky idem, page 504.
- meet idem, page 522.
- mortal idem, page 541.
- opportune idem, page 576.
- proper idem, page 653.
- punctual idem, page 657.
- seasonable idem, page 746.
- serious idem, page 754.
- suitable idem, page 836.
- timely idem, page 876.