κειρία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• καιρία (kairía)
• κηρία (kēría)
• κιρία (kiría)

Etymology

The connection with καῖρος (kaîros, “string”) seems obvious. The presence of the alternative forms leads to a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /keː.rí.aː/ → /ciˈri.a/ → /ciˈri.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /keː.rí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kiˈri.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ciˈri.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ciˈri.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈri.a/

Noun

κειρῐ́ᾱ • (keiríā) f (genitive κειρῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. girth of a bedstead
2. (medicine) swathe, bandage
3. grave-clothes
4. tapeworm

Inflection

First declension of ἡ κειρῐ́ᾱ; τῆς κειρῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κειρῐ́ᾱ hē keiríā	τὼ κειρῐ́ᾱ tṑ keiríā	αἱ κειρῐ́αι hai keiríai
Genitive	τῆς κειρῐ́ᾱς tês keiríās	τοῖν κειρῐ́αιν toîn keiríain	τῶν κειρῐῶν tôn keiriôn
Dative	τῇ κειρῐ́ᾳ têi keiríāi	τοῖν κειρῐ́αιν toîn keiríain	ταῖς κειρῐ́αις taîs keiríais
Accusative	τὴν κειρῐ́ᾱν tḕn keiríān	τὼ κειρῐ́ᾱ tṑ keiríā	τᾱ̀ς κειρῐ́ᾱς tā̀s keiríās
Vocative	κειρῐ́ᾱ keiríā	κειρῐ́ᾱ keiríā	κειρῐ́αι keiríai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κειριάτης (keiriátēs)
• κειριόω (keirióō)

References

• “κειρία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κειρία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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