κηραφίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, of Pre-Greek origin and related to κάραβος (kárabos, “prickly crustacean”), κεράμβηλον (kerámbēlon, “kind of beetle”) and κεράμβυξ (kerámbux, “cerambyx”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɛː.ra.pʰís/ → /ci.raˈɸis/ → /ci.raˈfis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɛː.ra.pʰís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ke̝.raˈpʰis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ci.raˈɸis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ci.raˈfis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ci.raˈfis/

Noun

κηρᾰφῐ́ς • (kērăphĭ́s) f (genitive κηρᾰφῐ́δος); third declension

1. kind of locust

Declension

Third declension of ἡ κηρᾰφῐ́ς; τῆς κηρᾰφῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κηρᾰφῐ́ς hē kērăphĭ́s	τὼ κηρᾰφῐ́δε tṑ kērăphĭ́de	αἱ κηρᾰφῐ́δες hai kērăphĭ́des
Genitive	τῆς κηρᾰφῐ́δος tês kērăphĭ́dos	τοῖν κηρᾰφῐ́δοιν toîn kērăphĭ́doin	τῶν κηρᾰφῐ́δων tôn kērăphĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ κηρᾰφῐ́δῐ têi kērăphĭ́dĭ	τοῖν κηρᾰφῐ́δοιν toîn kērăphĭ́doin	ταῖς κηρᾰφῐ́σῐ / κηρᾰφῐ́σῐν taîs kērăphĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν κηρᾰφῐ́δᾰ tḕn kērăphĭ́dă	τὼ κηρᾰφῐ́δε tṑ kērăphĭ́de	τᾱ̀ς κηρᾰφῐ́δᾰς tā̀s kērăphĭ́dăs
Vocative	κηρᾰφῐ́ς kērăphĭ́s	κηρᾰφῐ́δε kērăphĭ́de	κηρᾰφῐ́δες kērăphĭ́des
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

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