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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Beekes gives no etymology.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kté.re.a/ → /ˈkte.re.a/ → /ˈkte.re.a/
Noun
κτέρεᾰ • (ktérea) n pl (genitive κτερέων); second declension
- funeral gifts, burnt with the dead
- (in general) funeral honors
- wrappers for the dead, shrouds
Declension
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References
- “κτέρεα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κτέρεα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κτέρεα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κτέρεα 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