κειρία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• καιρία (kairía)
• κηρία (kēría)
• κιρία (kiría)

Etymology

The connection with καῖρος (kaîros, “string”) seems obvious. The presence of the alternative forms leads to a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /keː.rí.aː/ → /ciˈri.a/ → /ciˈri.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /keː.rí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kiˈri.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ciˈri.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ciˈri.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈri.a/

Noun

κειρῐ́ᾱ • (keirĭ́ā) f (genitive κειρῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. girth of a bedstead
2. (medicine) swathe, bandage
3. grave-clothes
4. tapeworm

Inflection

First declension of ἡ κειρῐ́ᾱ; τῆς κειρῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κειρῐ́ᾱ hē keirĭ́ā	τὼ κειρῐ́ᾱ tṑ keirĭ́ā	αἱ κειρῐ́αι hai keirĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς κειρῐ́ᾱς tês keirĭ́ās	τοῖν κειρῐ́αιν toîn keirĭ́ain	τῶν κειρῐῶν tôn keirĭôn
Dative	τῇ κειρῐ́ᾳ têi keirĭ́āi	τοῖν κειρῐ́αιν toîn keirĭ́ain	ταῖς κειρῐ́αις taîs keirĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν κειρῐ́ᾱν tḕn keirĭ́ān	τὼ κειρῐ́ᾱ tṑ keirĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς κειρῐ́ᾱς tā̀s keirĭ́ās
Vocative	κειρῐ́ᾱ keirĭ́ā	κειρῐ́ᾱ keirĭ́ā	κειρῐ́αι keirĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κειριάτης (keiriátēs)
• κειριόω (keirióō)

References

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