Ancient Greek

Noun

κέντρον • ‎(kéntron) m ‎(genitive κέντρου); second declension

1. Something with a sharp point: point, spike, spur
2. sting, quill, thorn
3. Torture device or instrument of motivation: whip, goad
4. nail, rivet
5. (figuratively, vulgar) ****
   • Sotades on Ptolemy II's incestuous marriage, cited by Plutarch, De liberis educandis 11a:

     εἰς οὐχ ὁσίην τρυμαλιὴν τὸ κέντρον ὠθεῖς.‎

     eis oukh hosíēn trumaliḕn tò kéntron ōtheîs.

     You're sticking your prick in an unholy hole.

Inflection

Related terms

• κεστός ‎(kestós)

Descendants

• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܩܢܛܪܘܢ ‎(qenṭrōn, qanṭrōn)

• Georgian: კენტრო ‎(ḳenṭro)
• Greek: κέντρο ‎(kéntro)
• Latin: centrum (see there for further descendants)
• Old Armenian: կենդրովն ‎(kendrovn), կենտրովն ‎(kentrovn), կենտրոն ‎(kentron)
  • Armenian: կենտրոն ‎(kentron), կեդրոն ‎(kedron)
• Sanskrit:
  • Hindi: केंद्र ‎(kendra)

References

• κέντρον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κέντρον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κέντρον in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «κέντρον» 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
• «κέντρον» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• κέντρον in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G2759”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «κέντρον» 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.
  • barb idem, page 62.
  • goad idem, page 364.
  • incentive idem, page 427.
  • incitement idem, page 428.
  • pang idem, page 591.
  • peg idem, page 602.
  • point idem, page 623.
  • prick idem, page 640.
  • rowel idem, page 723.
  • smart idem, page 786.
  • spur idem, page 806.
  • stimulant idem, page 817.
  • stimulus idem, page 817.
  • sting idem, page 817.