κεραυνός

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

Thematic transformation of an r/n stem, from a verb "to shatter" that was replaced by κεραΐζω (keraḯzō), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“to smash, shatter”). For the formation, compare ἐλαύνω (elaúnō).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

κεραυνός • (keraunós) m (genitive κεραυνοῦ); second declension

  1. thunderbolt, lightning strike
    Synonym: σκηπτός (skēptós)

Declension

Second declension of ὁ κεραυνός; τοῦ κεραυνοῦ (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ κεραυνός
ho keraunós 		τὼ κεραυνώ
tṑ keraunṓ 		οἱ κεραυνοί
hoi keraunoí
Genitive τοῦ κεραυνοῦ
toû keraunoû 		τοῖν κεραυνοῖν
toîn keraunoîn 		τῶν κεραυνῶν
tôn keraunôn
Dative τῷ κεραυνῷ
tôi keraunôi 		τοῖν κεραυνοῖν
toîn keraunoîn 		τοῖς κεραυνοῖς
toîs keraunoîs
Accusative τὸν κεραυνόν
tòn keraunón 		τὼ κεραυνώ
tṑ keraunṓ 		τοὺς κεραυνούς
toùs keraunoús
Vocative κεραυνέ
kerauné 		κεραυνώ
keraunṓ 		κεραυνοί
keraunoí
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Further reading

  • “κεραυνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “κεραυνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “κεραυνός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • κεραυνός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • κεραυνός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • “κεραυνός”, 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

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κεραυνός (keraunós).

Pronunciation

Noun

κεραυνός • (keravnós) m (plural κεραυνοί)

  1. thunderbolt, lightning

Declension

declension of κεραυνός
case     \     number singular plural
nominative κεραυνός • κεραυνοί •
genitive κεραυνού • κεραυνών •
accusative κεραυνό • κεραυνούς •
vocative κεραυνέ • κεραυνοί •

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