Ancient Greek

Noun

κεφαλή • ‎(kephalḗ) f ‎(genitive κεφαλῆς); first declension

1. head
2. a person's life (often in the sense of being in danger, similar to the English idiom "head is on the line").
3. the top-most part
4. the most important part
5. (as in Byzantine Greek) a provincial governor

Derived terms

• ἀκέφαλος ‎(aképhalos)
• ἀποκεφαλίζω ‎(apokephalízō)

Inflection

References

• κεφαλή in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κεφαλή in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κεφαλή in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «κεφαλή» 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
• «κεφαλή» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G2776”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «κεφαλή» 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.
  • head idem, page 389.
• 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

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˌce̞faˈli]
• Hyphenation: κε‧φα‧λή

Noun

κεφαλή • ‎(kefalí) f ‎(plural κεφαλές)

1. Alternative form of κεφάλι ‎(kefáli)

Declension