κρεμαστήρ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κρεμάννυμι (kremánnumi, “to hang”) +‎ -τήρ (-tḗr).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kre.mas.tɛ̌ːr/ → /kre.masˈtir/ → /kre.masˈtir/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kre.mas.tɛ̌ːr/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kre.masˈte̝r/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kre.masˈtir/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kre.masˈtir/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kre.masˈtir/

Noun

κρεμᾰστήρ • (kremăstḗr) m (genitive κρεμᾰστῆρος); third declension

1. (in the plural) cremaster
2. stalk by which a grape-cluster hangs

Declension

Third declension of ὁ κρεμᾰστήρ; τοῦ κρεμᾰστῆρος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κρεμᾰστήρ ho kremăstḗr	τὼ κρεμᾰστῆρε tṑ kremăstêre	οἱ κρεμᾰστῆρες hoi kremăstêres
Genitive	τοῦ κρεμᾰστῆρος toû kremăstêros	τοῖν κρεμᾰστήροιν toîn kremăstḗroin	τῶν κρεμᾰστήρων tôn kremăstḗrōn
Dative	τῷ κρεμᾰστῆρῐ tôi kremăstêrĭ	τοῖν κρεμᾰστήροιν toîn kremăstḗroin	τοῖς κρεμᾰστῆρσῐ / κρεμᾰστῆρσῐν toîs kremăstêrsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν κρεμᾰστῆρᾰ tòn kremăstêră	τὼ κρεμᾰστῆρε tṑ kremăstêre	τοὺς κρεμᾰστῆρᾰς toùs kremăstêrăs
Vocative	κρεμᾰστήρ kremăstḗr	κρεμᾰστῆρε kremăstêre	κρεμᾰστῆρες kremăstêres
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Catalan: clemàstecs
• → Galician: gramalleira
• → English: cremaster
• → French: crémaillère, cramaillère, cramaillier (archaic)
  • → Catalan: cremallera
  • → English: crémaillère
  • → Spanish: cremallera

Further reading

• “κρεμαστήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κρεμαστήρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette