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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Clearly related to χαράδρα (kharádra, “gorge, ravine; torrent”) and thus from Pre-Greek. The older connection with χαράσσω (kharássō, “to carve, engrave”) must be given up.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰé.ra.dos/ → /ˈçe.ra.ðos/ → /ˈçe.ra.ðos/
Noun
χέρᾰδος • (khérados) n (genitive χερᾰ́δεος); third declension
- silt, debris, gravel and rubbish, brought down by torrents
Inflection
- χεράς (kherás, “pebble, gravel”)
Further reading
- “χέραδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χέραδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- χέραδος 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