χηραμός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• χειραμός (kheiramós), χέραβος (khérabos), χηραμίς (khēramís)

Etymology

According to Beekes, it is clearly a Pre-Greek word, in view of the several variants.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰɛː.ra.mós/ → /çi.raˈmos/ → /çi.raˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰɛː.ra.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰe̝.raˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /çi.raˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /çi.raˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /çi.raˈmos/

Noun

χηρᾰμός • (khēramós) f (genitive χηρᾰμοῦ); second declension

1. hole, cleft, slit, hollow

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ χηρᾰμός; τῆς χηρᾰμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χηρᾰμός hē khēramós	τὼ χηρᾰμώ tṑ khēramṓ	αἱ χηρᾰμοί hai khēramoí
Genitive	τῆς χηρᾰμοῦ tês khēramoû	τοῖν χηρᾰμοῖν toîn khēramoîn	τῶν χηρᾰμῶν tôn khēramôn
Dative	τῇ χηρᾰμῷ têi khēramôi	τοῖν χηρᾰμοῖν toîn khēramoîn	ταῖς χηρᾰμοῖς taîs khēramoîs
Accusative	τὴν χηρᾰμόν tḕn khēramón	τὼ χηρᾰμώ tṑ khēramṓ	τᾱ̀ς χηρᾰμούς tā̀s khēramoús
Vocative	χηρᾰμέ khēramé	χηρᾰμώ khēramṓ	χηρᾰμοί khēramoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• χηραμοδύτης (khēramodútēs)
• χηραμόθεν (khēramóthen)

 

Further reading

• “χηραμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χηραμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “χηραμός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• χηραμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• χηραμός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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