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καιρός
καιρός
Ancient Greek
Noun
καιρός • (kairós) m (genitive καιροῦ); second declension (not in Homer)
- measure; proportion; fitness
- (of time): period (of time); season; time
- (often in a positive sense) proper time, opportunity; prime
- (loosely): God's time
- (in the plural) the times
- advantage, profit
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ καιρός | τὼ καιρώ | οἱ καιροί | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ καιροῦ | τοῖν καιροῖν | τῶν καιρῶν | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ καιρῷ | τοῖν καιροῖν | τοῖς καιροῖς | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν καιρόν | τὼ καιρώ | τοὺς καιρούς | ||||||||||
| Vocative | καιρέ | καιρώ | καιροί | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Synonyms
- (time): χρόνος (khrónos)
Descendants
- Greek: καιρός (kairós)
References
- καιρός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- καιρός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- «καιρός» 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
- καιρός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- “G2540”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- «καιρός» 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.
- chance idem, page 123.
- conjuncture idem, page 160.
- crisis idem, page 184.
- decisive idem, page 201.
- emergency idem, page 268.
- field idem, page 317.
- high time idem, page 399.
- hour idem, page 408.
- moment idem, page 538.
- nick idem, page 558.
- occasion idem, page 568.
- opening idem, page 575.
- opportunity idem, page 576.
- period idem, page 606.
- room idem, page 721.
- scope idem, page 740.
- season idem, page 745.
- time idem, page 875.
- turn idem, page 901.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek καιρός (kairós).
Noun
καιρός • (kairós) m (plural καιροί)
- weather
- καιρού επιτρέποντος ― kairoú epitrépontos ― weather permitting
- time, events
- από καιρό σε καιρό ― apó kairó se kairó ― from time to time
Declension
declension of καιρός
Synonyms
- (time): χρόνος m (chrónos)