Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κάρη ‎(kárē) (Homeric, Ionic)

Noun

κάρα • ‎(kára) n ‎(genitive κάρατος); third declension

1. head, face
2. the head or top of anything, as of a mountain
3. person

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Usage notes

Later authors have dative κάρᾳ ‎(kárāi), accusative κάραν ‎(káran).

References

• κάρα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κάρα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «κάρα» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κάρα 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • head idem, page 389.
  • throw idem, page 871.
• 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