Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κέρασος ‎(kérasos)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /kerasós/

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

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

Noun

κερασός • ‎(kerasós) m ‎(genitive κερασοῦ); second declension

1. bird cherry, Prunus avium (tree)

Inflection

Derived terms

• κεράσιον ‎(kerásion)
• Κερασοῦς ‎(Kerasoûs)
  • Giresun
  • Cerasus

Descendants

• Greek: κεράσι ‎(kerási)
  • Ottoman Turkish: كيراز ‎(kiraz)
    • Turkish: kiraz
    • Middle Armenian: քիրազ ‎(kʿiraz)
      • Armenian: քիրազ ‎(kʿiraz)
• Latin: cerasus
  • Vulgar Latin: ceresia
    • Aromanian: ciresh, tsiresh
    • Old English: ciris
    • Old French: cerise, cherise
      • French: cerise
      • Middle English: cheri
        • English: cherry
    • Italian: ceraso, ciliegio
    • Polish: czereśnia
    • Portuguese: cereja
    • Romanian: cireș, cireașă
    • Russian: черешня ‎(čerešnja)
    • Sicilian: cirasa
      • Maltese: ċirasa
    • Spanish: cerezo
• Middle Armenian: կեռաս ‎(keṙas)
  • Armenian: կեռաս ‎(keṙas)

References

• κερασός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «κερασός» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Liddell & Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
• 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