κάρηνον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κάρανον (káranon)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱŕ̥h₂-es-n-h₂, from *ḱerh₂- (“head, top”). Cognate with Ancient Greek κάρα (kára, “head, face”), Proto-Germanic *hirzniją (“brain”) and Old Armenian սար (sar, “tip, top; mountain”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ká.rɛː.non/ → /ˈka.ri.non/ → /ˈka.ri.non/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ká.rɛː.non/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈka.re̝.non/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ri.non/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ri.non/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ri.non/

Noun

κάρηνον • (kárēnon) n (genitive κάρηνου); second declension

1. head; mountain top (used mostly in the plural form)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κᾰ́ρηνον; τοῦ κᾰρήνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κᾰ́ρηνον tò kắrēnon	τὼ κᾰρήνω tṑ kărḗnō	τᾰ̀ κᾰ́ρηνᾰ tằ kắrēnă
Genitive	τοῦ κᾰρήνου toû kărḗnou	τοῖν κᾰρήνοιν toîn kărḗnoin	τῶν κᾰρήνων tôn kărḗnōn
Dative	τῷ κᾰρήνῳ tôi kărḗnōi	τοῖν κᾰρήνοιν toîn kărḗnoin	τοῖς κᾰρήνοις toîs kărḗnois
Accusative	τὸ κᾰ́ρηνον tò kắrēnon	τὼ κᾰρήνω tṑ kărḗnō	τᾰ̀ κᾰ́ρηνᾰ tằ kắrēnă
Vocative	κᾰ́ρηνον kắrēnon	κᾰρήνω kărḗnō	κᾰ́ρηνᾰ kắrēnă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὑψικάρηνος (hupsikárēnos)

Further reading

• “κάρηνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κάρηνον 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