κασωρίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the same Pre-Greek root of synonymous words κασαλβάς (kasalbás) and κασαύρα (kasaúra). There is no reason to connect these words with κασᾶς (kasâs, “horse-cloth”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.sɔː.rís/ → /ka.soˈris/ → /ka.soˈris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.sɔː.rís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ka.soˈris/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ka.soˈris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ka.soˈris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ka.soˈris/

Noun

κᾰσωρῐ́ς • (kasōrís) f (genitive κᾰσωρῐ́δος); third declension

1. strumpet

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ κᾰσωρῐ́ς; τῆς κᾰσωρῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κᾰσωρῐ́ς hē kasōrís	τὼ κᾰσωρῐ́δε tṑ kasōríde	αἱ κᾰσωρῐ́δες hai kasōrídes
Genitive	τῆς κᾰσωρῐ́δος tês kasōrídos	τοῖν κᾰσωρῐ́δοιν toîn kasōrídoin	τῶν κᾰσωρῐ́δων tôn kasōrídōn
Dative	τῇ κᾰσωρῐ́δῐ têi kasōrídi	τοῖν κᾰσωρῐ́δοιν toîn kasōrídoin	ταῖς κᾰσωρῐ́σῐ / κᾰσωρῐ́σῐν taîs kasōrísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κᾰσωρῐ́δᾰ tḕn kasōrída	τὼ κᾰσωρῐ́δε tṑ kasōríde	τᾱ̀ς κᾰσωρῐ́δᾰς tā̀s kasōrídas
Vocative	κᾰσωρῐ́ς kasōrís	κᾰσωρῐ́δε kasōríde	κᾰσωρῐ́δες kasōrídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Further reading

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