κέρδος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, from Proto-Indo-European *kerd- (“craft”) and cognate with Old Irish cerd (“craft, skil”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kér.dos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkɛr.dos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈker.ðos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈcer.ðos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈcer.ðos/
Declension
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ κέρδος tò kérdos |
τὼ κέρδει tṑ kérdei |
τᾰ̀ κέρδη tà kérdē | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κέρδους toû kérdous |
τοῖν κερδοῖν toîn kerdoîn |
τῶν κερδῶν tôn kerdôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κέρδει tôi kérdei |
τοῖν κερδοῖν toîn kerdoîn |
τοῖς κέρδεσῐ / κέρδεσῐν toîs kérdesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ κέρδος tò kérdos |
τὼ κέρδει tṑ kérdei |
τᾰ̀ κέρδη tà kérdē | ||||||||||
Vocative | κέρδος kérdos |
κέρδει kérdei |
κέρδη kérdē | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κερδοφόρος (kerdophóros)
- κερδάριον (kerdárion)
- κερδοσύνη (kerdosúnē)
- κερδώ (kerdṓ)
- κερδητικός (kerdētikós)
- κερδαλέος (kerdaléos)
- κερδαίνω (kerdaínō)
Descendants
- Greek: κέρδος (kérdos)
Further reading
- κέρδος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κέρδος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κέρδος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κέρδος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- κέρδος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- acquisition idem, page 9.
- advantage idem, page 14.
- avail idem, page 54.
- benefit idem, page 74.
- expediency idem, page 293.
- gain idem, page 352.
- good idem, page 366.
- grist idem, page 374.
- interest idem, page 450.
- lucre idem, page 504.
- material idem, page 517.
- pelf idem, page 602.
- privilege idem, page 642.
- profit idem, page 653.
- recommendation idem, page 680.
- 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
Greek
Etymology
Inherited from Ancient Greek κέρδος (kérdos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈcerðos/
- Hyphenation: κέρ‧δος
Declension
Synonyms
- όφελος n (ófelos)
- πλεονέκτημα n (pleonéktima)
- ωφέλεια f (oféleia)
Antonyms
- ζημία f (zimía, “loss, damage”)
Related terms
- αισχροκέρδεια f (aischrokérdeia, “profiteering”)
- αισχροκερδής (aischrokerdís, “profiteering”)
- αισχροκερδώ (aischrokerdó, “profiteer”)
- ακερδής (akerdís, “profitless”)
- ανεπικερδής (anepikerdís, “unprofitable”)
- αφιλοκερδής (afilokerdís, “unselfish, not greedy of wealth”)
- κερδίζω (kerdízo, “I gain, I win”)
- κερδοσκοπία f (kerdoskopía, “speculation”)
- κερδοσκοπικός (kerdoskopikós, “speculative”)
- κερδοσκόπος m (kerdoskópos, “speculator”)
- κερδοσκοπώ (kerdoskopó, “speculate”)
- κερδοφορία f (kerdoforía, “profitability”)
- κερδοφόρος (kerdofóros, “profitable”)
- κερδώος (kerdóos, “epithet of Hermes; expression for speculative activity”)
- ξανακερδίζω (xanakerdízo, “win again, regain”)
- υπερκέρδος n (yperkérdos, “superprofit”)
- φιλοκέρδεια f (filokérdeia, “graspingness”)
- φιλοκερδής (filokerdís, “grasping, greedy of wealth”)
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