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Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɛː.rós/ → /ciˈros/ → /ciˈros/
Etymology 1
A foreign loan from a substrate language, cognate with Latin cēra and Albanian qiri,[1] and possibly also with Lithuanian korys, Latvian kāre.[2]
Noun
κηρός • (kērós) m (genitive κηροῦ); second declension
- beeswax, honeycomb
- (in the plural) wax tapers
Inflection
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
κηρός • (kērós)
- genitive singular of κήρ (kḗr)
Further reading
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κηρός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 689–690
- “κηρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κηρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κηρός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κηρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κηρός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “κηρός”, 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.
References
- ^ Mallory, Douglas, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture
- ^ Chantraine, Pierre (1968–1980) “κηρός”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque (in French), Paris: Klincksieck, pages 526–527