Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἕδρη ‎(hédrē) (Ionic)
• ἕδραμα ‎(hédrama)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /éðra/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /éðra/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /éðɾa/

Noun

ἕδρᾱ • ‎(hédrā) f ‎(genitive ἕδρας); first declension

1. seat, chair, stool, bench
   1. seat, abode, throne
   2. seat, place, base
   3. (in the plural) quarters of the sky in which omens appeared
   4. seat of a physiological process
2. the act of sitting
   1. sitting still, inactivity, delay
   2. position
   3. sitting, session
3. seat, breech, fundament
   1. (of animals) rump
4. (geometry) face of a regular solid

Inflection

Derived terms

• ἡ ἕδρᾱ τοῦ ἵππου ‎(hē hédrā toû híppou, “the back of a horse on which a rider sits”)
• σῠ́νεδρος ‎(súnedros)

References

• ἕδρα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἕδρα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἕδρα» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἕδρα» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• ἕδρα in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• «ἕδρα» 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.
  • abiding-place idem, page 2.
  • abode idem, page 2.
  • attitude idem, page 51.
  • bench idem, page 73.
  • chair idem, page 122.
  • delay idem, page 207.
  • dwelling idem, page 257.
  • habitation idem, page 380.
  • home idem, page 403.
  • inaction idem, page 425.
  • perch idem, page 604.
  • posture idem, page 629.
  • seat idem, page 745.
  • sitting idem, page 779.
  • suppliant idem, page 840.
  • temple idem, page 860.
  • throne idem, page 870.