κῆδος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • κᾶδος (kâdos) Doric

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *kā́dos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₂dos, from *keh₂d-. Cognate with Old English hete (English hate).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

κῆδος (kêdos) n (genitive κήδους or κήδεος); third declension

  1. care for others
  2. (in the plural) troubles
  3. cares for the dead, mourning
  4. an object of care
  5. connection by marriage

Inflection

Derived terms

  • Δημοκήδης (Dēmokḗdēs)

References

  • κῆδος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • κῆδος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • κῆδος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • κῆδος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • κῆδος 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.
  • 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
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