κόδρα
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin quadra (“square; morsel”). For the initial κο- (ko-) from qua- compare Ancient Greek κοδράντης (kodrántēs), Koine Greek Κοδρᾶτος (Kodrâtos), Byzantine Greek κοτρίγα (kotríga), as well as Ancient Greek Κυρίτης (Kurítēs).
Noun
[edit]κόδρᾱ • (kódrā) f (genitive κόδρᾱς); first declension (Byzantine or earlier)
- some architectural element, possibly a platform of a temple or square
- 7th c. C.E., Ludwig August Dindorf, editor, Chronicon Paschale, published 1832, page 474:
- καὶ καθελὼν τὸν ναὸν τῶν Ἰουδαίων τὸν ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις ἔκτισε τὰ δύο δημόσια καὶ τὸ θέατρον καὶ τὸ τρικάμαραον καὶ τὸ τετράνυμφον καὶ τὸ δωδεκάπυλον τὸ πρὶν ὀνομαζόμενον ἀναβαθμοὶ καὶ τὴν κόδραν
- kaì kathelṑn tòn naòn tôn Ioudaíōn tòn en Hierosolúmois éktise tà dúo dēmósia kaì tò théatron kaì tò trikámaraon kaì tò tetránumphon kaì tò dōdekápulon tò prìn onomazómenon anabathmoì kaì tḕn kódran
- And after destroying the temple of the Jews in Jerusalem, (Hadrian) built the two bathhouses, the theater, the trikamaron, the tetranyphon and the dodekapylon, which was formerly called anabathmoin, and the kodra.[1]
- ambiguous, possibly square or morsel
- Synonyms: τετράγωνον (tetrágōnon); ψωμός (psōmós)
- [9th c. C.E., Martianus Hiberniensis, Laon. BM, Ms. 444, page 122r:
- Κοδρα — Codra, quadra][2][3]
- Kodra — Codra, quadra]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)]
Declension
[edit]| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ κόδρᾱ hē kódrā |
τὼ κόδρᾱ tṑ kódrā |
αἱ κόδραι hai kódrai |
| Genitive | τῆς κόδρᾱς tês kódrās |
τοῖν κόδραιν toîn kódrain |
τῶν κοδρῶν tôn kodrôn |
| Dative | τῇ κόδρᾳ têi kódrāi |
τοῖν κόδραιν toîn kódrain |
ταῖς κόδραις taîs kódrais |
| Accusative | τὴν κόδρᾱν tḕn kódrān |
τὼ κόδρᾱ tṑ kódrā |
τᾱ̀ς κόδρᾱς tā̀s kódrās |
| Vocative | κόδρᾱ kódrā |
κόδρᾱ kódrā |
κόδραι kódrai |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Joseph Patrich (2002) “On the Lost Circus of Aelia Capitolina”, in Scripta classica israelica, number 21, →ISSN, page 175
- ^ Georg Getz, Carl Gustav Löwe, Wilhelm C. Heraeus, Gotthold E. Gundermann (1888) Corpus glossariorum Latinorum: Glossae Latinograecae et Graecolatinae. Accedunt minora utriusque linguae glossaria[1], volume II, Leipzig: B. G. Teubner Verlag, page 351, line 35
- ^ codra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Further reading
[edit]- κόθρος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
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