καθετήρ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From καθίημι (kathíēmi, “to let down, descend”) +‎ -τήρ (-tḗr).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.tʰe.tɛ̌ːr/ → /ka.θeˈtir/ → /ka.θeˈtir/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.tʰe.tɛ̌ːr/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ka.tʰeˈte̝r/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ka.θeˈtir/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ka.θeˈtir/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ka.θeˈtir/

Noun

κᾰθετήρ • (kăthetḗr) m (genitive κᾰθετῆρος); third declension

1. (medicine) a surgical instrument for emptying the bladder, a catheter

Declension

Third declension of ὁ κᾰθετήρ; τοῦ κᾰθετῆρος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κᾰθετήρ ho kăthetḗr	τὼ κᾰθετῆρε tṑ kăthetêre	οἱ κᾰθετῆρες hoi kăthetêres
Genitive	τοῦ κᾰθετῆρος toû kăthetêros	τοῖν κᾰθετήροιν toîn kăthetḗroin	τῶν κᾰθετήρων tôn kăthetḗrōn
Dative	τῷ κᾰθετῆρῐ tôi kăthetêrĭ	τοῖν κᾰθετήροιν toîn kăthetḗroin	τοῖς κᾰθετῆρσῐ / κᾰθετῆρσῐν toîs kăthetêrsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν κᾰθετῆρᾰ tòn kăthetêră	τὼ κᾰθετῆρε tṑ kăthetêre	τοὺς κᾰθετῆρᾰς toùs kăthetêrăs
Vocative	κᾰθετήρ kăthetḗr	κᾰθετῆρε kăthetêre	κᾰθετῆρες kăthetêres
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Arabic: قَثْطَرَة (qaṯṭara), قَسْطَر (qasṭar), قَسْطَرَة (qasṭara)
• → English: catheter
• → French: cathéter
• Greek: καθετήρας (kathetíras)

Further reading

• “καθετήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• καθετήρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.