κύχραμος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κέχραμος (kékhramos), κίγχραμος (kínkhramos), κίχραμος (kíkhramos)

Etymology

Clearly a Pre-Greek word, in view of the variants.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ký.kʰra.mos/ → /ˈcy.xra.mos/ → /ˈci.xra.mos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ký.kʰra.mos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈky.kʰra.mos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.xra.mos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.xra.mos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.xra.mos/

Noun

κῠ́χρᾰμος • (kŭ́khrămos) m (genitive κῠχρᾰ́μου); second declension

1. unknown migratory bird, perhaps:
   1. corncrake (Crex crex)
   2. water rail (Rallus aquaticus)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κῠ́χρᾰμος; τοῦ κῠχρᾰ́μου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κῠ́χρᾰμος ho kŭ́khrămos	τὼ κῠχρᾰ́μω tṑ kŭkhrắmō	οἱ κῠ́χρᾰμοι hoi kŭ́khrămoi
Genitive	τοῦ κῠχρᾰ́μου toû kŭkhrắmou	τοῖν κῠχρᾰ́μοιν toîn kŭkhrắmoin	τῶν κῠχρᾰ́μων tôn kŭkhrắmōn
Dative	τῷ κῠχρᾰ́μῳ tôi kŭkhrắmōi	τοῖν κῠχρᾰ́μοιν toîn kŭkhrắmoin	τοῖς κῠχρᾰ́μοις toîs kŭkhrắmois
Accusative	τὸν κῠ́χρᾰμον tòn kŭ́khrămon	τὼ κῠχρᾰ́μω tṑ kŭkhrắmō	τοὺς κῠχρᾰ́μους toùs kŭkhrắmous
Vocative	κῠ́χρᾰμε kŭ́khrăme	κῠχρᾰ́μω kŭkhrắmō	κῠ́χρᾰμοι kŭ́khrămoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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