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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, “a technical expression of unclear meaning and therefore etymologically difficult.” According to Petersson, it is related to Old Armenian սարիք (sarikʻ, “sling, rope”) as well as to սարդ (sard, “spider”), while Cimochowski connected it with Albanian thur (“twine, weave”). All these connections derive from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“to plait, weave”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kâi̯.ros/ → /ˈcɛ.ros/ → /ˈce.ros/
Noun
καῖρος • (kaîros) m (genitive καίρου); second declension
- row of thrums in the loom, ravel
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Further reading
- “καῖρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “καῖρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- καῖρος 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