Greek

Proper noun

Κρατήρ • ‎(Kratír) m

1. (astronomy) Crater (a constellation)

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κρητήρ ‎(krētḗr) Ionic

Noun

κρατήρ • ‎(kratḗr) m ‎(genitive κρατῆρος); third declension

1. mixing bowl for wine
2. messenger who bears an ode
3. a constellation, the cup
4. cup shaped basin
   1. crater, mouth of a volcano

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: κρατήρας m ‎(kratíras, “crater”)
• Latin: crātēr, crātēra

References

• κρατήρ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κρατήρ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «κρατήρ» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κρατήρ in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• «κρατήρ» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • basin idem, page 64.
  • bowl idem, page 92.
  • mixing-bowl idem, page 536.