χαράδρα
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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
The older connection with χαράσσω (kharássō, “to sharpen, to whet”) must be given up. Related to χέραδος (khérados, “debris, gravel”) and thus probably from Pre-Greek, in view of the variation.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰa.rá.dra/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kʰaˈra.dra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /xaˈra.ðra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /xaˈra.ðra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /xaˈra.ðra/
Noun
χᾰρᾰ́δρα • (kharádra) f (genitive χᾰρᾰ́δρᾱς); first declension
- torrent, mountain stream
- Synonym: ἄναυρος (ánauros)
- riverbed
- gorge, gully, ravine
- Synonym: φάραγξ (pháranx)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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| Nominative | ἡ χᾰρᾰ́δρᾰ hē kharádra |
τὼ χᾰρᾰ́δρᾱ tṑ kharádrā |
αἱ χᾰρᾰ́δραι hai kharádrai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς χᾰρᾰ́δρᾱς tês kharádrās |
τοῖν χᾰρᾰ́δραιν toîn kharádrain |
τῶν χᾰρᾰδρῶν tôn kharadrôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ χᾰρᾰ́δρᾳ têi kharádrāi |
τοῖν χᾰρᾰ́δραιν toîn kharádrain |
ταῖς χᾰρᾰ́δραις taîs kharádrais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν χᾰρᾰ́δρᾰν tḕn kharádran |
τὼ χᾰρᾰ́δρᾱ tṑ kharádrā |
τᾱ̀ς χᾰρᾰ́δρᾱς tā̀s kharádrās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | χᾰρᾰ́δρᾰ kharádra |
χᾰρᾰ́δρᾱ kharádrā |
χᾰρᾰ́δραι kharádrai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- χαραδραῖος (kharadraîos)
- χαράδρεών (kharádreṓn)
- χαραδρήεις (kharadrḗeis)
- χαράδριον (kharádrion)
- χαραδρόομαι (kharadróomai)
- Χαραδροῦς (Kharadroûs)
- χαραδρώδης (kharadrṓdēs)
Descendants
- Greek: χαράδρα (charádra)
Further reading
- “χαράδρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χαράδρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- χαράδρα 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
Greek
Pronunciation
Noun
χαράδρα • (charádra) f (plural χαράδρες)
Declension
declension of χαράδρα
Synonyms
Further reading
χαράδρα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
