Κέρβερος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown. Suggested to be cognate with Sanskrit शबल (śabala), कर्बुर (karbura, “speckled, spotted”), but this is phonetically problematic and is rejected by Beekes.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kér.be.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkɛr.bɛ.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈker.βe.ros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈcer.ve.ros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈcer.ve.ros/
Proper noun
Κέρβερος • (Kérberos) m (genitive Κερβέρου); second declension
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ Κέρβερος ho Kérberos | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ Κερβέρου toû Kerbérou | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῷ Κερβέρῳ tôi Kerbérōi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν Κέρβερον tòn Kérberon | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Κέρβερε Kérbere | ||||||||||||
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References
- Κέρβερος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Κέρβερος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,005
- Klein
- Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World
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