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χείρ
χείρ
Ancient Greek
Noun
χείρ • (kheír) f (genitive χειρός); third declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ χείρ | τὼ χεῖρε | αἱ χεῖρες | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς χειρός | τοῖν χεροῖν | τῶν χερῶν / χειρῶν | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ χειρῐ́ | τοῖν χεροῖν | ταῖς χερσί(ν) / χείρεσσι(ν) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν χεῖρᾰ | τὼ χεῖρε | τᾱ̀ς χεῖρᾰς | ||||||||||
| Vocative | χείρ | χεῖρε | χεῖρες | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Derived terms
- χειροδόσῐον (kheirodósion)
Descendants
References
- χείρ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- χείρ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- χείρ in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- «χείρ» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- «χείρ» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- χείρ in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- “G5495”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 382