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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From a zero grade of Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-, whence also κεράννυμι (keránnumi, “I mix”), + -τήρ (-tḗr).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kraː.tɛ̌ːr/ → /kraˈtir/ → /kraˈtir/
Noun
κρᾱτήρ • (krātḗr) m (genitive κρᾱτῆρος); third declension
- mixing bowl for wine
- messenger who bears an ode
- a constellation, Crater the cup
- cup-shaped basin
- crater, mouth of a volcano
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “κρατήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κρατήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κρατήρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “κρατήρ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- κρατήρ 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.