καθέδρα

From κατά (katá, “down”) +‎ ἕδρα (hédra, “seat”).^[1]

κᾰθέδρᾱ • (kathédrā) f (genitive κᾰθέδρᾱς); first declension

1. seat
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cynegeticus 4.4
   1. chair
      • 320 CE – 403 CE, Oribasius, Collected Works 6.25.1
      • 170 CE – 240 CE, Herodian, History of the Empire from the Death of Marcus 2.3.7
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.714e
   2. (nautical) rower's seat
      • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 1.21.2
   3. sitting part, posterior, bottom
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Internal Affections 47
      • ante 177 CE, Pollux, Onomasticon 2.184
   4. (architecture) base of a column
      • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 17.1.46
2. sitting posture
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Categories p6b.11
   • 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 4.689b.21
   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On Fatigue 5
   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On Fatigue 7
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.45c
   1. seated idleness, inaction
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.18
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Camillus 28
   2. session
3. teacher's chair, professorial chair
   • 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 23:2
4. imperial throne
   1. (figurative) imperial representative

• κᾰθεδρᾰ́ριον (kathedrárion)
• κᾰθέδρῐος (kathédrios)
• κᾰθεδρωτός (kathedrōtós)

• → Latin: cathedra (see there for further descendants)
• → Russian: ка́федра (káfedra)
• → Ukrainian: ка́федра (káfedra)
• → Georgian: კათედრა (ḳatedra)

• “καθέδρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “καθέδρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• καθέδρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G2515 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• καθέδρα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • inaction idem, page 427.
• “καθέδρα”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011