Ancient Greek

Noun

κᾰθέδρᾱ • ‎(kathédrā) f ‎(genitive κᾰθέδρᾱς); first declension

1. seat
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cynegeticus 4.4
   1. chair
      • 320 CE – 400 CE, Oribasius, Collected Works 6.25.1
      • 170 CE – 240 CE, Herodian, History of the Empire from the Death of Marcus 2.3.7
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.714e
   2. (nautical) rower's seat
      • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 1.21.2
   3. sitting part, posterior, bottom
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, περὶ τῶν ἐντὸς παθῶν 47
      • 100 CE – 200 CE, Pollux, Onomasticon 2.184
   4. (architecture) base of a column
      • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 17.1.46
2. sitting posture
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Categories p6b.11
   • 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 4.689b.21
   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On Fatigue 5
   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On Fatigue 7
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.45c
   1. seated idleness, inaction
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.18
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Camillus 28
   2. session
3. teacher's chair, professorial chair
   • 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 23.2
4. imperial throne
   1. (figuratively) imperial representative

Inflection

Antonyms

• (chair): κλίνη ‎(klínē)

Derived terms

• κᾰθεδρᾰ́ριον ‎(kathedrárion)
• κᾰθέδρῐος ‎(kathédrios)
• κᾰθεδρωτός ‎(kathedrōtós)

Descendants

• Latin cathedra (see there for further descendants)

References

• καθέδρα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• καθέδρα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «καθέδρα» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G2515”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «καθέδρα» 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.
  • inaction idem, page 425.