κάτοπτρον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the stem of κατόψομαι (katópsomai) (root *h₃ekʷ- (“to see”)), future of καθοράω (kathoráō, “to behold”) + -τρον (-tron).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ká.top.tron/ → /ˈka.top.tron/ → /ˈka.top.tron/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ká.top.tron/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈka.top.tron/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈka.top.tron/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈka.top.tron/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈka.top.tron/

Noun

κάτοπτρον • (kátoptron) n (genitive κατόπτρου); second declension

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Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κάτοπτρον; τοῦ κατόπτρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κάτοπτρον tò kátoptron	τὼ κατόπτρω tṑ katóptrō	τᾰ̀ κάτοπτρᾰ tà kátoptra
Genitive	τοῦ κατόπτρου toû katóptrou	τοῖν κατόπτροιν toîn katóptroin	τῶν κατόπτρων tôn katóptrōn
Dative	τῷ κατόπτρῳ tôi katóptrōi	τοῖν κατόπτροιν toîn katóptroin	τοῖς κατόπτροις toîs katóptrois
Accusative	τὸ κάτοπτρον tò kátoptron	τὼ κατόπτρω tṑ katóptrō	τᾰ̀ κάτοπτρᾰ tà kátoptra
Vocative	κάτοπτρον kátoptron	κατόπτρω katóptrō	κάτοπτρᾰ kátoptra
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κατοπτρίζω (katoptrízō)
• κατοπτρικός (katoptrikós)

Descendants

• Greek: κάτοπτρο (kátoptro)

Further reading

• “κάτοπτρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κάτοπτρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κάτοπτρον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κάτοπτρον 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
• (no entry for the specified headword) Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “κάτοπτρον”, 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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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